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In my part of the world when you adopt you are required to give a certain number of references, no more and no less. This is literally the first step in the application process. We must provide their name, their spouses name, a phone number, their address and the number of children they have. When choosing our references we were told only the following: It’s preferable that all your references have seen… Read More

Why don’t you just adopt?  These five words used to drive me crazy as people who knew of our miscarriages and losses would often make this suggestion.  If you want kids, why don’t you just adopt?  And now that we are adopting, it still drives me crazy when others who have never adopted make the suggestion, as it if it’s a simple solution. When we were in the thick of recurrent pregnancy… Read More