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Originally Posted by anarchamama
Blessed how long was your wait? DId you adopt in your own province? We have been considering US as I was under the impression that there was simply way to few infants in canada, however we would be more than willing to consider an aboriginal child from canada if there was a need for families.
Thanks
Heather
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We are in ALberta and adopted both our kids with the help of a private agency there. We were shown to three situations in Ontario as they had some very specific requests by expecting parents and they couldn't find a suitable family there. None of those worked out.
The wait for DD was just over 13 months (our file was shown 15 times during that period). For DS, our wait was one year plus 8 days from time of approval til he was born.. I must say as well that we were quite open to some specific special needs, healthwise.
Our kids are 27 months apart and the process (although we're still waiting the adoption order for Roo) was a little over four years from our first application til now.
It is true... there are very few infants placed in adoption situations compared to the US. But they are there, if you're open to the possibilities. I do have to add however, that I believe our placements were dependent on more than just our openness to race.