The Advantages and Considerations of Domestic Adoption
Newborn babies available right from the hospital. No foster care involved.
Able to directly experience the birth of the baby.*
Birth mother's prenatal records as well as birth and delivery records available.
Can be part of the pre-birth process (accompanying birth mother to doctor visits).*
Ability to receive on-going medical information as your child grows up.*
Ability to continue a relationship with your child's birth parents**
Comfort of knowing that the birth parents selected YOU as the child's parents.
Ability to know, first-hand, the reason that the birth parents decided on adoption placement.
Ability to have all background information about birth parents and their families
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No specific waiting time for an adoption placement.
No assurance of an adoption placement.
Fear of involvement with birth parents after placement (in an open adoption).
Discomfort at seeing the birth parents pain at making the adoption decision.
Staying in communication with birth parents.**
Feeling of competition with the birth parents.
* These situations depend upon the cooperation of the birth parents and do not take into account emergency placements from hospitals. Emergency placements are when a hospital calls AFTH about a woman who would like to place her child after she has already given birth.
** These are both an advantage and consideration depending on how you view them.
