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OP - You sound like a wonderful person and a uniquely suited in terms of nurturing and raising a child with special needs.  I would caution on taking on too much at one time and suggest that you focus on adopting one child with special needs first.  If it is an international adoption, you can't be sure that the full extent of the child's special needs is shared with you.  For example one of our daughter's has a lovely niece adopted from China who her parents knew she had CP, but were not told that she also has a seizure condition.  Fortunately Mom is Chinese, fluent in the language and has the support of her two parents and they live in a metro area and can afford to give the little girl the best in therapies. However, what has been most taxing were the runs to the ER and hospitalizations to stabilize at times for the seizure meds.  They did have a two year wait and had to go for close to a month to China for final adoption.  This is not to dissuade you from your goal, but to say that as with any child you have to be prepared for the unexpected and so besides perhaps wanting to have a full-time job with predictable hours, you ought to consider that adopting one child first would be most practical way to go for both.[/quote]

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