It's been decided... Joe and I will adopt our baby. After 20 long months of "trying". And each month having the disappointment of a failed attempt we realized that being parents to A child was more important to us than being parents to a biological child. So now we have entered new territory. New emotions. New excitement. New setbacks. New disappointments.
First we began our research online for agencies and started asking questions to everyone we could think of. We quickly found an agency online that had a wealth of information and countless stories from adoptive families and birth mothers. They were upfront with their costs and provided resources about funding. I felt comfortable with them. After a few weeks we decided to send them a our pre-application and payment to get started. Within a few days they shipped us a huge packet of information containing the more in depth application, information on creating our adoption profile, the home study requirements that would meet the 50 states requirements and a book that housed every answer to every question possible. Now we were excited!!!!
Besides the questions we keep asking ourselves of what, if any, limitations of race do we want to have... The major question is, How are we going to pay for this?
In all the excitement that has thus far happened with feeling like we were going to finally get OUR baby... Today we experienced our first of probably many setbacks. We found out that our equity loan was not approved. So, now we must find other methods of financing this adoption. Goal $35,000. Paid so far: $195.
My husband I have decided just yesterday to adopt as well. I was also looking into American Adoptions. Was this an 'average' cost you found or did they help you come to a more specific amount once you recieved their packet? I look forward to following your journey!
ReplyDeleteHi Sarah, They said that the traditional adoption would range from $28-40K and that you could pick the max amount you want to spend and be sure to only match you with birth mothers that would fall at or below that amount.
ReplyDeleteI have been struggling with the cost some, so we have decided to put American Adoptions on the back burner for now and get more info from local and smaller agencies. I found a local agency that has rave reviews for only $16K.