I am in extremely early stages of thinking about adoption... it's basically hypothetical at this point.
DH & I talked before TTC about adopting rather than having BC, but then decided to try for a baby biologically. I'm now pregnant so I'm not sure if it's just hormones that's making me think about this again (i.e. whether we could adopt in the future).
The things that I think made us decide that having BC would be the 'easier' option (it probably is easier, but I mean for us especially):
- Our family is a mix of races/ethnicities. I'm white & DH is mixed Caribbean, he also has a daughter from a previous relationship (who lives with us full time) whose mother is black African. Having many different colours & backgrounds, it would be hard to find a child who "matched" us exactly in this way - we would be open to kids from any race but I don't know whether SW would place them with us.
- At home we speak both French and English and are raising our kids bilingually. I imagine that this would basically rule out foster-to-adopt and would also limit us to babies/very young toddlers (or kids who already speak French)
I've been reading this boards for over a year but as I said, it's extremely early at this point, we probably wouldn't be ready to start the adoption process for around 3 years at least, so I haven't looked into LA/VA/international etc but any advice would be welcome!