Adoption

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April

What a fabulous message and how lucky your children are and of

course how blessed you and your husband have been. Congrats on

finalising Micah's adoption! I agree that it is an option to those

who can't fall pregnant. This week I believe is " National Adoption

Week " in the UK and it has been a very topical subject in the press.

All stories have been heartwarming and encouraging.

P

>

> I have been trying to catch up on reading posts and

> noticed the discussion regarding infertility due to

> POF. First, I saw someone posted that " all women in

> the U.S. have been taken off HRT due to health risks " .

> I just wanted to encourage whomever wrote that to

> seek an opinion from a new doctor. I know MANY women

> ages 20 to 35 who have undergone hysterectomies and

> entered surgical menopause who are now on hormone

> replacement therapy. I, myself, had a hysterectomy the

> same month I turned 30 and have been on HRT ever

> since. There are actually more health risks for young

> women if they don't do the HRT. So please talk to

> your doctor about this option for your daughter.

>

> Second, my husband and I decided once we got married

> that we wanted to build our family through adoption.

> We never tried to get pregnant. (My having to have a

> hysterectomy came later and funny enough had nothing

> to do with us wanting to adopt.) I know many people,

> most people, want to have biological children. And

> when faced with the possibility of not being able to

> do that can feel very helpless, sad, and disappointed.

> But I just wanted to offer another perspective - I

> have three BEAUTIFUL, WONDERFUL children who did not

> grow under my heart, but in it. Adoption is a

> wonderful option and can bless your lives more than

> you know. So please don't give up on having children

> of " your own " . All of my children were adopted - and

> now they are " my own " .

>

> Actually, we finalized Micah's adoption yesterday.

> (Micah is our son with BPES who came home to us at 3

> yrs old.) It was very touching when the judge asked

> him if he wanted to stay with us and he said yes. He

> knew yesterday meant our forever family is just that

> - forever. When we got home he grabbed me, hugged me

> tight, and said, " Forever Mommy " . I hugged him back

> knowing that after three and a half years he no longer

> has to worry - he is home - and we are the lucky ones.

>

> Blessings to all,

> April Eisele, Colorado, USA

> Wife to Jon

> Mommy to Mira, Micah & Misha

>

>

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[Guest guest]

When we adopted our son's bio sister, I got him a gift " from " her to give to

him, which he still treasures.

Barbara

[Guest guest]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!

Meira, I'm so excited for you. Prayers are with you for the " supervisor

approving the report " . I hope you get that copy in your hands ASAP.... Best

wishes to you...I got to read another one of your post (father adopting out his

autistic son) and wanted to say...I like the way you are so optimistic.

I like the way you always see the positive side of people. We don't know what

people are going through that they sometimes show the negative side of

themselves, but you seem to find the good in them. I used to be like that...Its

great knowing that there are still people out there that are still optimistic.

(not judgmental). Glad to see you made it this far towards having your adoption

finalized. Not too much longer.... hang in there!!

meira-harvey@... wrote:

Regarding stats I posted earlier... I looked through my research. I

didn't have the number quite right. Over half a million children are in foster

care in the USA, or in group homes waiting for foster families. A quarter of

those children (as opposed to a quarter million children) are waiting for

adoptive families to call their own. 150,000 is still a huge number of

parentless children living in the US.

Regarding us.... I spoke to our adoption worker and she finished writing our

homestudy report!!!!!!! We can go to the matching meeting next week!!!!!!!!! We

still have to make it through her supervisor approving the report, before we can

have a copy to send out of state, but having made it this far, she is approved

to start recruiting children for us from within the state!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going to be a Mommy to two soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

=) =) =)

Doing a happy crazed dance.....

Meira