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Hi, My name is Lori. My husband and I are looking to adopt. We had are homestudy done in march. The agency that did our homestudy only does international and we would like to do domestic. But while we were doing are homestudy a BM came into her office and she was a liitle over 8 months pregnant and wanted to put her baby up for adoption and so are social worker called us and asked if we would be interested and we said deffinatley yes but about 2 weeks later she changed her mind. So about another 2 or 3 weeks went by and another BM came into her office and she was about 81/2 months pregnant and are social worker had are BM letter and family pics and the BM picked us. So we were so excited well she had the baby it was a little boy but she changed her mind to. That was really hard to deal with but we new there was a chance of that happening so we understood. So what I just like to no if anybody knows of a good adoption agency in texas that don't charge a huge agency fee. We would just like to start on the right path. thank you lori ↓
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| Name: Pattyjb | Date: Oct 1st, 2006 11:56 AM |
| Well, we are going through our church, LDS Family Services, they don't charge lots, ten percent of your gross income for the year baby is adopted. Need to be LDS members to do so though. Go to your house of worship or pull out the phone book look under adoption attorneys and/or agencies... good luck. ↑ |
| Name: Dreamer | Date: Oct 1st, 2006 4:34 PM |
When we first started our first adoption we were going to do international, some things happened and we decided to change to domestic, our homestudy people just changes the recommendations on the back page. Usually the International homestudies are MORE to them, so you shuld have no problem using the same homestudy, we didn't. That also depends on your state laws.
Good Luck
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| Name: lorilea | Date: Oct 1st, 2006 10:31 PM |
| thank yall for information ↑ |
| Name: momto3adoptedangels | Date: Oct 3rd, 2006 11:35 AM |
| HI Lori... Here is an Idea for you... Go through Social services and take a risk doing foster care...We took a risk knowing we could be hurt in the end, but the risk is worth the reward...And that was what we went on..We had lots of Foster Children.. In the end we ended up with a baby boy who came to us at 4 days old. His Mom surrendered at 8 months and then we adopted him May 1st... and then we got a little girl, 3 days old...Her parents surrendered when she was 8 months as well... We are in the process of adopting our little princess....I hope this helps you.. When you do fostercare you can gain parenting experience,, and it is a Good thing,, we looked at this as all the children that we helped along the way were just a blessing!!! Please consider this option and good Luck....Feel free to email me back.. Thanks Jennifer ↑ |
| Name: Lizzi | Date: Oct 3rd, 2006 1:26 PM |
| I think it would be so hard for any woman to give up her baby. I would always wonder if the baby was really o.k. and being taken care of properly and loved,and happy. The not knowing would tear me apart. Also not knowing where the baby was would be scarry and hard to live with too. People who want to adopt can come off as nice but the women who are about to give up their babies don't REALLY know how these people will be once they are out of sight and gone with their child so I can easily understand why so many suddenly change their minds in the end. I'm not of course in that situation but If I were and thinking of giving my baby up,I would want to spend months getting to know the adoptive parents and learn who they were inside and out and then I'd be able to make a content ,permanent decision.I would also be the type to always want to know where the child lived,recieve pictures throughout each year and get letters on how child was doing. Basically if it was me I'd want to be considered a (long distant relative). Meaning I wouldn't pry into the childs life but I would still want to be kept in the light from a distance. ↑ |
| Name: lorilea | Date: Oct 3rd, 2006 11:26 PM |
| Thank yall so much for sharing yalls stories. ↑ |
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