Monday, September 04, 2006

Background

Welcome to our adoption journey blog. We want this to be a place where we can update, think outloud and share the process with everyone who in interested. I wanted to keep this apart from our regular blogs so people who are only interested in our adoption journey don't have to read about our random day to day stuff.

So, how did we decide to adopt? Here is a little background in the history of our family plan.

  • May 02- Clayton and Margo are married.
  • Sept. 03- We decide it is time to start our family. Mostly because Margo wants 5 kids by the time she is 30 and at this point she is 26.
  • Oct. 03-Oct. 04- We actively try to get pregnant, but to no success.
  • Nov. 04- Margo has surgery to remove polyp from an important baby making area.
  • Jan. 05- Margo starts new job as nanny and now that surgery is over and healed we are ready to start trying to get pregnant again. As part of working for a peditrician, I take a TB test and fail!
  • Feb. 05-Nov. 05- Margo has to take antibiotics for inactive TB (how in the world I got inactive TB no one ever found out, but being on antibiotics meant no getting pregnant.)
  • Jan. 06- Now that antibiotics are out of Margo's system, we start trying again to get pregnant. But while on meds, the idea of adoption floated around.
  • April 06- Doctor wants to do many more tests and possible fertility drugs to help with the getting pregnant. By now, Margo feels that instead of spending money to have a biological baby, we could spend the money to adopt an already born baby that needs a good home
  • May 06- We start to discuss adoption as a real possibility. Margo visits with an adoption agency. Margo feels that we should adopt even if biological babies are a possibility. Clayton feels that we should adopt as a last resort.
  • June 06- Clayton hears Louie Giglio and is convicted that we start the adoption process immediately.
  • Aug. 06- We decide on The Gladney Center for our adoption agency.
  • Aug. 31, 2006- We drop off our information sheet to Gladney.

And that is where we are now. So, that is a little background to our journey so far.

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