As the PPs said, thanks for starting this thread! My DH and I had our first bio daughter, in Dec. 05. As many others have described, I have felt "called" to adopt since I was a child. DH and I talked about it before we got married and he was always open to it. We had never decided how many kids we wanted but now that we have our DD, we agree that two will be plenty for us. So, since I definitely want to adopt, I won't be getting pregnant again. I'm relying on Mirena IUD for that! Maybe I'll have my tubes tied in the future. I just don't feel ready for that yet. But, we are starting to think about adoption now and have talked about doing an open adoption. This will be a few years down the road, as actually, our DD was a surprise and we weren't planning to have any kids for another year or two from now. We've been together 6 years, married 2, and I'm 24 and he's 28. We have agreed at this point to not aggressively pursue anything; we believe the universe will lead us in the right direction. There is another baby out there for us somewhere, we'll be brought together somehow!
I'm glad to hear others' success stories.
~Lindsay (mommy to Neko, 4 mos.)