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I don't know whether I'm qualified to reply, since I'm an adoptive mother, but here goes. My husband & I adopted a one year old boy last spring, while waiting for our China adoption to progress (now at a wait of 2.5 years with no end in sight). We'd originally wanted to adopt a baby girl and then, perhaps, a boy. I was able to convince my husband to adopt a boy first (we adopted our son from Vietnam, which didn't allow parents to specify a gender for a first child meaning that we knew we'd get a boy because the orphanages had a surplus of boys) with the assumption that we'd eventually get a daughter. Now, we're exploring options for a 2nd child and my husband is very much set on adopting a baby girl, without any special needs, the younger the better while I'm willing to be more flexible. I'd prefer a baby girl too but I'd be willing to accept a boy or an older toddler, or a child with some special needs (or some combination of the three).
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