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Its so rare to find others in this situation. I've even faced quite a bit of attacks for being open and honest on the internet about my roll on both sides of parenting in the triad. I've been shocked to hear people inform me that I needed to 'take back' my 'first child 'and quite 'forsaking' her before I have any right to adopt another child. But, circumstances change and reasons for one placing a child no more condemn you to never parenting anymore than they make that decision wrong or invalid, imo.
I placed my first child for adoption in a familial placement 10 years ago. I went onto marry a wonderful man and parent 3 children we gave birth to as well. Last year, we started our journey into adoptive parenting with the process of adopting our oldest from Sierra Leone. He came home just before Christmas at 7 years old. And, I'm now researching our next adoption, which will probably be 18-24 months from now. We're thinking of looking into a sibling set from Liberia next adoption.
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