[angelical]

My husband and I had our bio son one year ago. However, since I experienced preeclampsia/HELLP and had to deliver 3 months early, we have decided to not try for another biological child.

Here's the issues/question that I have. Any help is appreciated!

* We live in PA. Anything we should know?

* We are planning to contact the county adoption agency in early June to start the process. (We haven't done ANYTHING at all yet.) Anything specific we should know about that?

* Since we have a son, we want to adopt at least one girl (with a max of 2 adopted children). We are white, but will consider a transracial adoption. We particulary want a child between infant and six years old. TIMEFRAME? COSTS? CHANCES?

* We will accept mild physical, emotional, mental, learning issues. We don't have the time and money for severe issues though.

* We are middle-class, with not much disposable income. We will need to do this as absolutely CHEAP as possible. What can we expect?

Oh, since our son was so premature, we couldn't put him in daycare. So, my husband got a night job. We split the parenting duties. So, any kids we have will have "full time" parents, even though we do both work outside the home full time too.

ANY ADVICE, answers, thoughts, prayers, etc. are welcome. We are definite Newbies to this.

THANKS!

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