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Originally Posted by susanandgrace
On average, how long did it take to get matched for an infant?
We are very new to this process? Just getting started. I heard it could takes YEARS to adopt an infant, but lately I am hearing that it is much quicker.
Can anyone share their thoughts.
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I really feel there is no average. It all depends on who you are working with, where you live, where your agency/facilitator/attorney placed from and what you are open to where the child is concerned. It also depends on what the expecting parents considering adoption are looking for in a potential adoptive family for their child. In other words, it all depends...
We waited 14 months for DD and 12 months for DS, both placed as newborns through a private, domestic agency. For our agency and province (we are in Canada, and adoption is done quite differently than most states in the US), our wait times were below average in both situations. If we would have gone through the government (foster care) we would have waitied years to be placed with a newborn.
That said, we were also open to any ethnicity and to some special needs, including certain birth defects and prenatal exposure to some substances.
The only advice I can offer is to start contacting agencies to see if you find one you might want to work with. And make some decisions about what kind of adoption you are interested in. And then go from there...
Blessings on your journey!