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You have gotten some great advice here. We adopted our daughter at age 4.5. She is one of the great joys of my life, an amazing kid and I am so grateful to have her in my life. However, it was a rough beginning. She had a tough adjustment to a whole new life, new parents, new family, new everything. It took a good 6 months of intense attachment parenting on my part to work through many of her issues upon coming home. I did regression, co-sleeping, co-eating, bottle feeding, lots of babying. I had to teach her what it meant to have a Mom and Dad and what it meant to live a family life. It was hard work and time consuming. Was it worth it? YES!!!!!
She is a normal kid, working at grade level or above, has friends, goes to camp, plays with her brother, is loving and caring and fun to be around.
If you feel you can devote yourself to this undertaking and be ready for anything that comes your way...then go for it.
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LilyMoon
Lucky Mom to Zak and Anastasia
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