Congrats! I like you was hugely discouraged with ttc and the fact that the dr. told me that I was going to have to do either an IUI or IVF to get pregnant and with that dh and I both decided that adoption was best (I was happy for this b/c adoption was always on my heart...!). So now we are the proud parents of a running/happy 1 yo toddler that is the light of my life!
We didn't do state adoption. We did go to an info meeting about it and when we left it dh said we are never doing that. They told us if that we wanted to adopt an infant (which we did) then good luck. They are few and far between..so we went private adoption and hooked up with alot of few services and that is how we brought home our son. The agnecy that we used, yes, was alot (everything including homestufy, travel and finalization was around $30K, but we pulled from everywhere had a huge garage sale, and now a small loan to pay for everything, but I am not ashamed to admit that it took that to bring hiim home...he's priceless to me...lol...
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I say this, adoption is like ttc, there are goign to be so many downs before there are ups...but it does and will happen...Good luck to all who adopting and you ever want to talk/vent/need advice (I've talked to many adoption professionals and services, and if I havne't talked with one, I can almost find someone that has) just let me know!