Adoption and Pregnancy
I bet you checked on this title thinking maybe I was making a dramatic announcement via blog post. Some people who adopt do sometimes have ironic timing with their pregnancy announcements. I've known people who adopted after years of infertility only to almost immediately become pregnant after the adopted child(ren) come home. No, there's no such crazy announcement here tonight. If that's all you came for, you might as well go back to surfing on Facebook or Pinterest.
This post is about my recent musings on the adoption process and how it is similar in some ways to the pregnancy process. First of all, adoption involves a long period of waiting. We officially started the adoption process in January and we're coming upon the eighth month with no child yet. We've spent months preparing our home, going to classes, thinking about what our children might look like, what their gender will be, and what names might sound good with our last name. Like a pregnancy, we're eight months into the process and there are many mysteries we are expectantly waiting to discover.
We are getting close and there are signs starting to show themselves that children will be in our home soon. As with pregnancy, there are exciting things happening in the process, but because of the uncertainty we are waiting until we are further along. Our adoption caseworker has sent us a couple of profiles of waiting children. We have submitted our homestudy to be considered as adoptive parents for two sets of siblings. The caseworker for one of the sibling groups has called us to arrange an interview to see if her team of professionals might find us to be a good fit to parent these sweet children. But, we are not the only parents being interviewed. This adoption may not happen. And, like a woman early in her first trimester of pregnancy, we are not sharing many details until we are more sure that nothing will go wrong.
These are exciting times in the adoption process, but also so uncertain. Hopefully by the ninth month we will have a child to show for all this waiting and planning and praying.
This post is about my recent musings on the adoption process and how it is similar in some ways to the pregnancy process. First of all, adoption involves a long period of waiting. We officially started the adoption process in January and we're coming upon the eighth month with no child yet. We've spent months preparing our home, going to classes, thinking about what our children might look like, what their gender will be, and what names might sound good with our last name. Like a pregnancy, we're eight months into the process and there are many mysteries we are expectantly waiting to discover.
We are getting close and there are signs starting to show themselves that children will be in our home soon. As with pregnancy, there are exciting things happening in the process, but because of the uncertainty we are waiting until we are further along. Our adoption caseworker has sent us a couple of profiles of waiting children. We have submitted our homestudy to be considered as adoptive parents for two sets of siblings. The caseworker for one of the sibling groups has called us to arrange an interview to see if her team of professionals might find us to be a good fit to parent these sweet children. But, we are not the only parents being interviewed. This adoption may not happen. And, like a woman early in her first trimester of pregnancy, we are not sharing many details until we are more sure that nothing will go wrong.
These are exciting times in the adoption process, but also so uncertain. Hopefully by the ninth month we will have a child to show for all this waiting and planning and praying.
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