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[quote=Anonymous]We adopted domestically last year.  We went through an agency and it cost about 50K all in.  We adopted a healthy baby boy born in March of last year.  The homestudy and all the agency requirements were a pain and time consuming.  Once we got through the homestudy and agency requirements we had our baby within six months.  We got into the matching process with our agency in Oct-Nov 2016.  We were chosen by our birthmother in Jan 2017.  Our son was born in March 2017 and we brought him home a week after he was born. (We had to stay in the state in which he was born to go to court and complete the interstate compact)  The adoption was finalized in Oct 2017.

I recognize this situation is unusual.  Our son is healthy, happy and a complete joy to us.  We have an open adoption.  I write letters and send pictures a couple of times a year and I also have a secret FB page for our son's birthmother to see him growing up.  It is one sided.  I post a picture with a comment, she will respond to the posting with some variation of "Look how beautiful he is, I love him."  I don't doubt for one second that she does love him and she gave him up for adoption because she loved him.  I don't respond to any of the comments and she doesn't write letters back to us.  All the written correspondence goes through the adoption agency.

I'm happy to talk in more detail off line if you are interested I can set up an email to chat.[/quote]

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