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Initially, we planned to go through the state and were approved and received licensing. We got a few calls about placements but didn't feel good about any of them because our primary purpose was to adopt. We didn't want to have a child in our home, begin the steps to pursue adoption and then after having a child with us for a while, have a birth relative step up and decide they want to raise the child. We didn't want to chance experiencing that kind of heartbreak, and that was our primary reason for deciding to go through a private adoption agency. We wanted to adopt an infant and would consider a toddler. One (maybe two, I can't recall) of the calls we got from the state was for a newborn and two others for toddlers (under two years of age). We had to make a decision "now" and needed to get the child that day if we accepted.
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