Hi there - totally new to anything adoption based but DH and I are thinking about it and I'm interested to hear some real life experiences.
We have birth DS (3.5yrs) and for various reasons - including a birth injury I sustained - we agreed not to pursue extending our family through another biological child as if the injury worsened after another child I could be left with ongoing issues such as double incontinence etc.. Discussed surrogacy v v briefly but as we're not infertile (that I know of) I don't Think that option is really open to us. So, we've decided to gather info about adoption to consider this route further.
Bit about us - both 30yrs old. Own home. Married 5 years, together 10. Primary teacher and engineer. Both parents live locally and great support network which we obviously already utilise for DS. We realise we're v lucky and think we could offer a loving home to another child.
Our local area offers (and is promoting) early permanence routes such as Foster to Adopt and concurrent planning. I'm aware of the fact that both have a risk that the child could end up back with birth parents and that we would be required to support contact sessions etc during the fostering element but aside from that I'm finding it v hard to get any other helpful information. Anyone have experience or knowledge about this area?
We have registered interest with LA and they've logged our details to invite us along to the next information evening but this isn't for a while apparently so I've tasked myself with doing my own research in the interim. Any info welcome!