[jrwall68]

My wife and I adopted a perfect little girl from China in 2004 and we're thinking of adopting again.

But...we're thinking we might adopt our second from another country.

We need your advice. Has anyone adopted more than one child from more than one country?

Our first adoption was from China, but now that we have learned so much about ourselves through adoption, some other countries seem like a good fit - but we want to make sure its a good fit for our daughter too.

Any thoughts on growing our family by adopting from second country?

[lovemybulldog]

We've thought about what we will do if we decide we want another child, since we probably will no longer qualify for China after May 1. It won't really be a deal breaker for us if we go to another country. I've already thought that I would like to go Vietnam or Thailand (our backup plan if we don't make May 1). For us, it's about building a family and not about heritage or skin color. The country part would be a non-issue for us.

Keep in mind that you would need to juggle heritages and that might come up in a homestudy: How will you make each child feel connected to their birth country individually? How will you integrate multiple country's heritage into your family life?

Just something to think about. I know that there are plenty of people on the boards with kids from multiple countries (not to mention bio kids...isn't that a sort-of-similar kind of blending?)

[SchnauzerMom]

We are adopting two from Guatemala currently, but started with China this time last year. We switched due to the longer and longer waits being projected, because we had already spent nearly 5 years trying to have bio children. Our hearts couldn't take another 2 year wait at that point.

A part of me still yearns to adopt at least one little girl from China. I spent months dreaming of her and decorated her room, so when we switched I knew we would go back to China to adopt one day. In 4-5 years we plan to adopt 1-2 more babies. I know a 1-2 year wait won't be as hard once we have little ones home already, so I am already thinking again of China for a girl and perhaps Korea for a boy.

I personally don't see an issue with having children from mutliple countries if you include some festivities, holidays, cultural exposure classes or events, etc. in each of their lives. I think the important thing is for all family members to be interested and participate so each child knows they and their culture is valued equally.

[NaturalizedCT]

Have you looked into Taiwan?

[sakelley]

We adopted our daughter from China last Sept. If we adopt again, we will probably adopt from Vietnam. I just have to convince my husband that we our daughter needs a sibling.

[mdaisyq]

We adopted from Korea for our first (I was younger than 35 which was the minimum age for China way back when) and then when China opened up to adoptive parents who were not childless, we adopted from China. Too, my husband's age excluded us from adopting from Korea again.

We have loved learning about two Asian cultures. Some Korean/Chinese/Asian cultural events we take all our children and some we only take some of our children - their decision and choice (with some parental veto.) Our Korean'/Chinese New Year celebration is a mish mash, but it is our family's mish mash and the kids love it.

Our children share an ethnic (and historically, a cultural one as well) background so it has been easier to talk about the similarities, rather than the differences.

I say, go for it.

[andrea]

We adopted our first daughter from Korea in 2003 when we were both 41 and planned to start when Sarah was home a year. Well since the adoption took almost 2 years start to finish plus the year wait between adoptions our agency requires I turned 43 which meant I was over the allowed age of 42 so we adopted our next daughter from China because while the girls are not from the same country they are both asian and both countries have similar customs and history with China being much older of course.

Andrea