Why adoption?

Why have we chosen adoption to expand our family?

After our son was born six years ago I was diagnosed with peripartum cardiomyopathy, a heart condition where pregnancy causes congestive heart failure. It's pretty rare and there's not a lot of info on it, but we have been told that death for mommy is a common outcome, especially during a second pregnancy. Thankfully after three years my heart was completely recovered and I don't have to have to take any meds or watch my lifestyle (hello beera!).

Mike (hubby) and I quickly decided that international adoption was our best choice for our second child, it's a closed adoption and we can pick the gender of our child. It did take us four years after J was born to get to the "right" time to begin the process. Moving around so much was making it hard to complete the process, and money was always an issue. The adoption will probably total out at around $30,000.

We are very happy with our agency, Gladney in Fort Worth. They have been in business over 100 years and have placed thousands of babies. I'm so about old movies, and there is a pretty decent one about the life of Edna Gladney called Blossoms in the Dust starring Greer Garson. Incidentally Greer also does a decent turn as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (Kiera rocks the role, though).

Em