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[quote=Anonymous]a high school friend who had limited prior relationships and was single first fostered and then adopted an infant (several months old) at 44. she adopted his newborn sister a year later. Is her life nuts? yes, but she is very happy. She has a good income, job flexibility, and friends/family support on occasion. The hardest thing, she said, is just that she can't really ever take a break and has a hard time when she is sick, plus she can't really travel right now for work--she really hesitated to adopt the sibling because of all of this, but she also felt it would have been terrible for them if they had been separated in what was already a really tough family of origin situation.  She has an au pair and the older one is in school, the younger in part time preschool (9-2)  so the au pair generally is on from 2-8 and then helps out on weekends.

back to OPs friend. I think if she has a stable job with flexibility for doctor's appointment and a strong enough income to afford daycare/nanny share, etc it should be fine. but I wonder if she might explore infant fostering first, like my friend did.[/quote]

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