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Should I wait to adopt...just to keep the birth order?
For the past few months we've been looking into adopting a female bet 2 and 4 (approx. my children's ages). My reasoning was that the baby in the family would remain the baby, while the eldest remained the eldest. However, when I read and hear about the importance of keeping with birth order, it is very discouraging. We do NOT want to adopt a baby. It seems that a 2-4 yr old would fit perfectly in my family- but others say that it would be very hard on my son, now 1 1/2. If we adopt a younger child than him, we would have to wait a few years for him to get older so that the child would not have to be a small infant. I am confused and feeling a bit sad at the idea of having to put it all on hold for even longer. Any comments on this? Has anyone else adopted out of birth order? ~paisley
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