[hopefulinTexas]

Can the adoptive mother travel to the adoptive couples state to give birth??

We have possibly found a match...
We live in Texas, The pbom lives in Florida... She is due in March. She mentioned coming to Texas when it is time to give birth....

This raises several questions...

Do we still have to go through the ICPC process?

Which states laws are followed, Texas or Florida?


TIA for any input....

[tobeafamily]

A woman can choose to give birth wherever she wants.

A couple of issues, though:

1. If she's past her sixth month of pregnancy, she may have difficulty finding OB/GYN care as many physicians are reluctant to start care past the end of the second trimester.

2. If insurance is involved, there may also be reluctance to pay for an out of state birth except in cases of medical emergency (i.e. woman unexpectedly going into labor out of state). Many plans will deny out-of-plan care unless strict criteria are met.

If the child is born in your state of residence, ICPC is not involved as the child is not going anywhere.

Adoption proceedings would fully follow the laws of the State of Texas.

HTH

Regina

[mom2alex]

2. We ran into this trouble. DD's bmom delivered in our state (NY). Because of this, her insurance would only pay a portion of the delivery.

[MrsSmith]

Our daughter's bparents moved here (NY) from their home state 3 months before her due date. DD's bmom didn't have private insurance and there is an automatic eligibility coverage under Medicaid if you have no insurance and are pg, so that was what took care of her end of the expenses. DD was retroactively covered once papers were signed by our insurance, which was good because she was born a month early and had to stay in the NICU for a while. The thing that was made simplest by their choice to temporarily relocate in terms of adoption paperwork was that it didn't count as an interstate adoption and we didn't have to do any of that paperwork, nor were there any waiting periods - it all fell under the jurisdiction of NY state law.

As for doctors - I would check into whether she'll be able to get seen by an OBGYN in your area. In our case, my own OBGYN's office took our daughter's bmom on as a patient (guess she figured if the docs were good enough for me, they were good enough for her ) but I looked into it before they decided for certain to move, that way medical records and all that jazz could be transferred to make the transition of care smooth.

Good luck to you in your adoption journey!

Cheers!
Heather

[hopefulinTexas]

Thanks to all of you that replied!

I'm sad to say that the pbom e-mailed me today and is having second thoughts about adoption..... She was going to take some time to think things over.... I'm still hopeful that she will decide to move forward with adoption and place with us....

We are so very anxious to be parents!!! Please keep us in your prayers....

thanks for the support!!

[Support2Adopt]

I know it must be heartbreaking to you to hear that the potential Birthmother is having second thoughts. On the other hand, I think this is a pretty normal occurence. At least it shows that she is carefully weighing out all of her options.
JJ