About the third person to come do a home study ended up being a woman named Pam from CFI. When we were midway through the process, she realized that race was not an issue for us and that we actually wanted an African-American or biracial child.
One night at a get together with people from our church we talked to the couple who had given us the name of the adoption agency. We asked them "how’d you handle this waiting, and hearing nothing?" They said "God works in mysterious ways; you never know when it might happen".
Read More…We were amazed when after only three months and a few referrals, a birthmother chose us. We had received her information first and were very excited--she was in her early 30s, in good health, had not taken drugs or smoked cigarettes or used alcohol during the pregnancy, and had a pretty uneventful medical history. We mailed the profile packet off to her adoption agency right away, and in less than a week, we got the call that she had chosen us.
Read More…After several years of trying to have a baby on our own and several attempts with fertility treatments, Rob and I decided that adoption was the right path for us. Rob had always wanted to adopt but I wanted to try for a biological child first. When we did finally decide to go the adoption route, we chose to take a class called Adoption Discovery at one of the local churches. It was a great resource for explaining the different adoption options and led us to choose domestic voluntary infant adoption
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