Journey So Far

I have decided to start this blog as a way to keep track of our adoption journey and also for my own personal therapy/sanity. Needless to say our journey so far has been long and the waiting has been difficult. My husband and I met in December 2003 and got married in October 2005. We decided to wait to have children until I graduated nursing school so we could provide a wonderful, stable life for our family. We started trying to have children in May 2007. We got pregnant in October and we were so excited! Unfortunately we found out two days before Christmas that we had miscarried. We were devastated. It was honestly one of the hardest experiences I have ever been through. We decided to try again because our doctor said miscarriages during your first pregnancy is very common. We got pregnant again in June 2009. We both were very skeptical about the pregnancy and didn't want to get too excited because of what happened last time. We found out in August that we miscarried again. This time was not as hard as the first. I think it's because we had already been through the process and knew this was a possibility. At this point we began the discussing the possibility of fertility treatments and testing to find out why we kept having miscarriages. The testing revealed no detectable problems and I went through several months of fertility treatments and medications without any results. We began discussing the possibility of adoption. We both agreed we felt adoption was for us. We researched all the available adoption opprotunities. Private adoption costs ranged from $10,000- $20,000. We then found the SC DSS website and found out that there are over 107,000 children in foster care waiting for homes and there are no charges to adopt. We both felt we would rather give a child in need a good home than pay for a child. In March 2010 we officially expressed interest in adoption with SC DSS. We sent in our primary application and were told we had to attend an adoption orientation class but there was a waiting list. We waited acouple of months and finally got in
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