Post by kybaby101 on Jun 19, 2010 10:21:54 GMT -5
My husband and I are beginning the adoption process with Catholic Charities. We didn't really shop around for an adoption agency. But their fees are reasonable (at least for adoption fees) and we don't mind supporting our church and dioceses. Have any of you worked with Catholic Charities? Or know anything about their process vs. other agencies?
We had our initial meeting this past week. It sounded like the process was so long and I didn't even know if we would be accepted into their program. Then we got a letter in the mail a few days ago inviting us to participate in the next steps, the group training/informational sessions. The sessions begin in 2 months and last for 6 weeks. After that we submit our final application and I think fairly soon after that we are shown to potential birth parents. They said currently they have 5 sets of prospective adoptive parents waiting for a 'healthy caucasian' baby. We would really like a hispanic or hispanic/white mix baby, but in the state of Kentucky, they are more rare than 'white' babies. Now the process seems to be frighteningly fast. It probably isn't though. It is exciting and scary to think that in the time it takes to carry a baby to term, 9 months from now, we could have a baby. The adoption folks said that some couples are chosen in a few months and other wait 2 years. So, it may be more an elephant's pregnancy term. I have to have faith that when the time is right, the right things will happen for us.
We had our initial meeting this past week. It sounded like the process was so long and I didn't even know if we would be accepted into their program. Then we got a letter in the mail a few days ago inviting us to participate in the next steps, the group training/informational sessions. The sessions begin in 2 months and last for 6 weeks. After that we submit our final application and I think fairly soon after that we are shown to potential birth parents. They said currently they have 5 sets of prospective adoptive parents waiting for a 'healthy caucasian' baby. We would really like a hispanic or hispanic/white mix baby, but in the state of Kentucky, they are more rare than 'white' babies. Now the process seems to be frighteningly fast. It probably isn't though. It is exciting and scary to think that in the time it takes to carry a baby to term, 9 months from now, we could have a baby. The adoption folks said that some couples are chosen in a few months and other wait 2 years. So, it may be more an elephant's pregnancy term. I have to have faith that when the time is right, the right things will happen for us.
