We went to an informational meeting this past Saturday all about adoption and international adoption thru Lutheran Social Services and Children's Home Society (they are partners in adoption services). A thanks to both our moms for joining us in order to have extra ears there! Talk about a ton of info! We're more interested in international adoption and of course they didn't get to that until the last hour of the 4hr meeting =) Interestingly, we ended up most drawn to adoption from the Marshall Islands. Here's a link to their tourism page.
http://www.visitmarshallislands.com
The Marshall Islands ask that to adopt from their country that you keep the adoption somewhat open. I haven't been open to that in a domestic adoption but am ok in this instance. The idea that the birth parents can't show up at my door but we can plan a trip to go visit on our terms and that child can know their heritage if they want seems great to both of us.
Now the catch is this; they expect adopting parents to stop fertility treatments when going thru the adoption process. Also, if we were to get pregnant, we would need to stop the adoption process. Seeing as how it would take 1-3 years to actually be placed with an adopted child, I don't want to just stop trying to get pregnant but if we wait to start the adoption process and don't get pregnant in a couple years again, we're that much more behind on the adoption process. It's totally a catch 22.
We definitely need some guidance and direction on what to do. We won't be doing any fertility treatments in the next couple months anyway but if we wait to register to start adoption, we'll be that much more behind.
Please pray for some guidance for us in which steps to take next.
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