[Dublin]

I was just wondering why everyone decided to adopt.

For my husband and I, it was a decision that was made for us. Due to medical problems, I had to have a hysteroctomy when I was 13. So, I have known since I was 13 that I would never carry a child of my own. We checked into surrogacy, but it was terribly expensive. Adoption was the best choice for us and I am so glad we choose it!! We now are the proud parents of a 4 monthold beautiful girl, Kylie.

[mckenna]

i actually did not set out to adopt, so i think i have one of the very few "unplanned adoptions!" just kidding, really i had only intended to foster but my son came to live with me at 3 months and it was clear we were meant to be mother and son. i adopted him 2.5 "short" years later. he is 3 y/o today!

[DebCsMom]

Hubby & I have 2 bio children & 3 adopted. We always said we'd adopt children once our bio children were older. We always wanted 6 children. Well God had other plans for us & hurried up our plan to adopt one day. We were diagnosed with Unexplained Secondary Infertility when our son was 9 years old. A year later we adopted our beautiful daughter Cylie. 2 years later we adopted Cirrah (Kira) & 14 months later we adopted Caleb.

Deb

[Ktates]

We're pretty much never going to conceive naturally. If we wanted biological children one of us would have to have surgery and we would have to do ICSI. We think God had another plan for us - that if He wanted us to have biological children we would be able to without medical intervention. (Not that we are very spiritual.) For us it was more important to be parents than to have biological children.

[angelical]

We have a 2 y.o. bio son, but I had a very difficult pregnancy, resulting in an emergency c-section 3 months early. It would be foolish to get pregnant again, but we dont feel like our family is complete yet.

We got the call this week... we are going to committee on a 5 y.o.!

[amom4life]

Angelical~ Its good to "see" you and I'll be praying for you!

We decided to adopt because of infertility and because we love and want children.

We opted not to go through infertility treatments altogether. Didn't want to waste the money, time, or our marriage over somethiing that wasn't as important to us as just being parents.
Judy

[Lisaadopt]

From the beginning I wanted to adopt children. I never wanted biological children. I wanted to adopt a sibling group and that is exactly what I did. Last April we adopted 4 beautiful children and In August the mom had another child and we are now adopting her. The experience has been unreal for us! What a journey this has been. I'm very lucky!

[katieb31323]

We new from the beginning that we would build our family through adoption. (if you don't have the right tools you just don't have the right tools). It was more of a decision of do we want to parent or give birth. Always two different choices to me. For me I have always wanted to parent and so it wasn't really that hard of a decision. I am glad that we didn't have to deal with any unknown infertility issues...after listening to other stories increasing glad!!!! The things and heartbreaks some have gone through. I count myself as very blessed. Adoption is quite a journey and worth every step.

K

[mlb]

Due to infertility issues (2 IVFs with ICSI), iadoption was the only way we would have children. Even though we went through so much emotionally and physically before adopting, I am glad we did. I would not want to have any doubts when I looked into my precious son's eyes.

[Missy M]

As a reunited birthmother I have no business posting in this thread but I can't help myself. Your posts all brought tears to my eyes. I wanted to say I think all of you adopted 'cause you have hearts the size of TEXAS...and I thank God for women like ~you~ MissyM

[Support2Adopt]

Originally posted by Dublin
I was just wondering why everyone decided to adopt.

Ever since I was in elementary school, I knew I wanted to adopt Don't ask me why, because I really don't know.
Fortunately, dh was fine with this choice and we went on to adopt 4 newborns.
We did start to try for a bio baby, but were matched with a potential Birthmom, so we stopped trying. I'm so glad we did because I cannot even imagine life without the kids we have.
JJ

[Support2Adopt]

Originally posted by Missy M
As a reunited birthmother I have no business posting in this thread but I can't help myself. MissyM

Missy,
You have every business posting on this thread and please don't feel differently!
JJ

[Sledge]

We had two bio kids when we adopted my wifes nephew who was right in between our bio kids ages. The state was severing bmom's rights and taking away all three of her kids. The step dad to my ason would only take his two blood kids and wanted nothing to do with ason. So the SW said if she had a relative to take him they would help out with the placement. We were the only relatives that would step up and keep him in the family. Now I have two sons and a daughter.

[spaypets]

For most of our marriage we didn't want kids at all. Which was fine since we had at least one fertility issue. When my DH first brought up the subject about becoming parents, he suggested adopting. When confronted with the process we briefly toyed with the idea of trying to fix the fertility issue but then learned there was more than one and so never pursued bio kids. I'm glad. We didn't have the rollercoaster every month, I never had to gain weight, I could keep having the occaisional drink and I get a fabulous, beautiful daughter -- much more charming and cheerful than anything we would have made ourselves!

[saxxxy]

My husband and I have always wanted a family. We stopped using birth control after one year of marriage and 8 years later we finally started thinking that it just wasn't working for us.
We did foster care for 2 year (and are still signed up). We fostered a wonderful 3 year old for 8 months when we decided it was time to adopt. We were hoping that we would be able to adopt our foster child but she had a wonderful Uncle and Aunt who she ended up going to live with.
We decided not to pursue any type of fertility treatment. We decided after 9 years of 'normal' (I don't know if this comment is PC or not) methods of concieving that our children were obviously meant to come to us in other ways.

In March of this year we brought home our little angel daughter who came to us through adoption. She is beautiful and perfect and such a blessing.

Good Luck to You All in You Adoption Journeys