Titi
Stepmom/Trying to Adopt
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Help!
This is our last cycle ttc #1 in the two year frame-next month begins year 3. I'm 35, dh is going to be 37 next month, we've been together ten years and are desparate to be parents.
I've begun researching adoption but it's overwhelming!!! I don't even know how to start.
We certainly can't afford now the $18,000-$40,000 USD cost for adopting as research seems to indicate it will cost.
I would love an infant, as I don't think we'll ever be able to "make" our own baby so it is hard to imagine not even being able to get someone else's baby, but of course the costs are so much higher.
We would be open to starting with an older child, or one with maybe some special physical or emotional needs, or maybe even siblings-I just don't know how/where to start.
We are Christian (Catholic)........the church hasn't been able to help us.
I know that there are some "for profit" agencies and lots of other "non-profit" agenicies. I LOVE the idea of helping a needy child as opposed to just fullfilling our selfish wish of being parents to a new baby-but I need help-please!!!!!!!!
PS-I live in Florida.
This is our last cycle ttc #1 in the two year frame-next month begins year 3. I'm 35, dh is going to be 37 next month, we've been together ten years and are desparate to be parents.
I've begun researching adoption but it's overwhelming!!! I don't even know how to start.
We certainly can't afford now the $18,000-$40,000 USD cost for adopting as research seems to indicate it will cost.
I would love an infant, as I don't think we'll ever be able to "make" our own baby so it is hard to imagine not even being able to get someone else's baby, but of course the costs are so much higher.
We would be open to starting with an older child, or one with maybe some special physical or emotional needs, or maybe even siblings-I just don't know how/where to start.
We are Christian (Catholic)........the church hasn't been able to help us.
I know that there are some "for profit" agencies and lots of other "non-profit" agenicies. I LOVE the idea of helping a needy child as opposed to just fullfilling our selfish wish of being parents to a new baby-but I need help-please!!!!!!!!
PS-I live in Florida.