[Beaglepup]

Our agency required the Adoption Prep class which my social worker taught. She was very frank in that class and I felt prepared. Actually at the time I probably felt like she told about the negatives a little too much. Although she always said that these were "possibilities to be prepared for" and that we may experience some or none of them.

The agency also required 30 credit hours of adoption education which helped me greatly. We have been doing attachment parenting, probably not as diligently as we planned on, but we've had a pretty easy time of it. Not perfect by any means, but it was nothing like what the social worker described to us in the beginning.

My agency has been really great about being there for us after the adoption as well. I think them preparing us and being there for us afterwards is their strongest point.