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Hi Richie 68. When we first started talking about Adoption, before we knew anything about it, we were only going to consider International Adoption. We were so petrified at the thought of having the birth family ‘butting in’ that we were worried about being in the same country as them originally. It sounds so stupid now. This is where the information days really helped us out. By the end of day 1, we had actually decided to go for a National Adoption. We just had so many misconceptions and the information days really put our minds at ease, and made us do a complete bout-face. So much so, that we now really want to have on-going contact with the birth family. And of course, it also helped to cement our ‘National’ decision when we were given some idea about the costings of International Adoption in day 2. We got a bit of a surprise about exactly how much we would be looking at, and in the end decided it would be so far in our future that it just wasn’t realistic for us. So National it is at least for the time being. If we have no luck with National, we will probably try International in a few years time.
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