Adoption Group: Waiting to Adopt

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Waiting to Adopt

For anyone navigating the adoption process—homestudies, dossiers, profiles, referrals—and waiting, waiting, waiting.
This is a group to seek support from others who are waiting, not a group to seek a potential adoption match.

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Advice for alerting about adoption scams?

Hello… A bit of background… in February, we were contacted by email by a woman in a small town in another state who was trying to help a family member.…
- Posted by Someday44 to Waiting to Adopt on May 19, 2020 at 2:25am | 5 Comments | Post a reply
Advice for gifts/care package to birth mom

Hello- I’m new to this group. My husband and I have just been matched with a birth mother who is due in June. She has very few resources (was homeless…
- Posted by Arpi to Waiting to Adopt on Nov 25, 2019 at 9:47pm | 14 Comments | Post a reply
Independent Adoption - new outreach strategies?

Hi all, My husband and I have been officially / actively looking for an independent adoption match for over a year, mainly using online tools to put the word out.…
- Posted by Someday44 to Waiting to Adopt on Nov 09, 2019 at 5:45pm | 0 Comments | Post a reply
New to the group

Hi there, My name is Emily and I am new to the group! My husband and I are in the exciting process of waiting for our adoption match …
- Posted by EmilyC92212 to Waiting to Adopt on Nov 06, 2019 at 6:28pm | 4 Comments | Post a reply
Adopting a siblings group from Philippines

Hello everyone! My name is Carmen and I´m new to the group. My husband and I are adopting a group of 3 brothers from the Philippines. I wanted to know…
- Posted by carmen.materod to Waiting to Adopt on Aug 26, 2019 at 8:52am | 0 Comments | Post a reply
Experiences with Adopting 5-6 year old

I am in the beginning process of foster to adopt and am considering a 5-6 year old. I’d like to hear from other parents about adopting from this age group,…
- Posted by AmyK to Waiting to Adopt on Aug 07, 2019 at 12:53am | 8 Comments | Post a reply
Birth moms and lawyers

Hi everyone, First post here… I am writing because for the second time, we’ve been communicating with a birth mother for months who started off very communicative and open, agreeable…
- Posted by Someday44 to Waiting to Adopt on Jun 07, 2019 at 2:06pm | 9 Comments | Post a reply
Super emotional during this pre-adoption phase. Anyone else?

I am a 30 year old woman adopting a baby with my husband and I have found myself so emotional over this entire process. We are almost done with the…
- Posted by Jnachman0320 to Waiting to Adopt on May 06, 2019 at 5:43pm | 8 Comments | Post a reply