DH and I are attending an information session for adoption in qld next week. I am nervous, excited, anxious but most of all focused on getting as much info as possible. We haven't done an IVF cycle for two years now, and while we hadn't decided to stop, life just kept happening and the right time never came. We also haven't finished trying..
What we want to do though is explore the possibility of adoption and then revisit the IVF wagon later (hopefully after we adopt).
I'd love to hear any feedback, personal experiences or advice you can offer.
I'm not naive as to the length of wait times and the fact that there are more people wanting to adopt than there are children, but I am feeling good about exploring another option.
I look forward to chatting with others about this....
I don't know much about adoption but have you thought of surrogacy? I was told by a friend of mine who has a surrogate baby that "adoption is Australia is a joke" Apparently near impossible and really expensive.. Surrogacy is difficult too, but possible.
One of my SIL's closest friends adopted two children from Korea due to the incredibly long waiting lists in Aus - they were basically told their chances of adopting a newborn or very young child were pretty close to nothing. That was 10 years and 8 ago now though so I have no recent information about wait times etc.
Not sure if adopting a child from overseas is something you would be interested in, but they certainly found the process a lot easier than an Australian baby, and they now have a beautiful family.
Don't have much advice to offer, but just wanted to say I think it's amazing that you're looking into adoption. My Mum and Uncle were both adopted and I think it is such an amazing thing to do. I'm currently pregnant with #1, but DF and I hope to adopt in the future aswell.
I agree with what lulu said. We've thought about adoption and if we do we'll be going international.
Surrogacy in Australia is really really complicated and there's a lot of hoops to jump through, we considered it also but it was a nightmare just reading through the "rules".
There are lots of hoops to jump through for adoption - including international adoption. But my beautiful chinese daughter is now 9 and the absolute light of my life. So put your hard hat on, don't be discouraged and stick the course.
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