https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 04 May 2026 10:01:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-892380 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:55:50 +0000 Sweet T 892380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A couple we used to go to church with has two children that they adopted. They fostered for several years and have had the two kids since they were babies. They also have two biological children. There was a third little girl that they wanted to adopt but the biological aunt ended up with custody. It's been a long time but I remember it being a very strange situation and it was very sad. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-892376 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 02:32:51 +0000 Smurfette 892376@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My Dads cousin did. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-892344 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:30:56 +0000 Running Elley 892344@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't think I know anyone personally yet but we have friends who are in the process of adopting now! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-892342 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 01:27:06 +0000 Mrs. Jacks 892342@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! My life is full of adoption! One of my sisters, a cousin just got a placement today (and boy was that a tough roller-coaster), Mrs. Cowboy, Mr. Jacks' mom and brother, friends who have adopted, including the friends we're on vacation with right now. Adoption is such a beautiful thing!</p> <p>And @honeybee: I think that would be a wise move, friend ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890518 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:51:43 +0000 lilteacherbee 890518@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My grandparents adopted my aunt. She was older (8 or 9) and her mom and my grandma were cousins. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890502 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:45:51 +0000 Mrs. Pickle 890502@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I don't know anyone. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890468 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:36:21 +0000 TemperanceBrennan 890468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! Lots. My best friend's dad and a close friend from college were adopted. My mom has two different friends that adopted, and two of my nieces and one nephew was adopted. </p> <p>We are planning to grow our family by adoption in addition to having biological children. </p> <p>It's funny - I didn't realize until I was in college that many people adopt because of infertility. I always just thought of adoption as another way to have a family and never connected the two. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890449 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:31:30 +0000 Maysprout 890449@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I know a number of people. The closest relative is my cousin who's adopted and a few years younger than me. They almost couldn't adopt because back in the day my uncle was considered too old at 37. A number of my friends growing up were adopted and a few neighbors. And now a lot of the people I used to work with and a couple friends. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890438 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:27:53 +0000 mrs. 64 890438@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Quite a few actually, including 2 family members. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890417 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:20:54 +0000 chopsuey 890417@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! I know 4 ppl! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890410 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:20:15 +0000 Dandelion 890410@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My aunt and uncle adopted a girl from China a few years ago. She's just a year older than DS. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890384 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:13:42 +0000 mrsjazz 890384@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I have a friend who was adopted from Korea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890382 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:13:15 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 890382@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! Good friends of ours adopted a little girl in August. Domestic adoption, done privately, and it was actually a girl they knew who was the birth mom. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890373 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:11:08 +0000 Honeybee 890373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of my best friends, Mrs. Jacks, adopted her youngest. :) if we ever changed our minds about having a third child, we would adopt, too. Pregnancy is too hard for me! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890371 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:10:40 +0000 Corduroy 890371@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I know several people including my ILs. They adopted SIL from Korea. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890352 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:07:23 +0000 MrsH 890352@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>One of my coworkers adopted internationally. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890329 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:04:16 +0000 jhd 890329@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>my parents were foster parents for many years and adopted my siblings. our pastor &amp; his wife adopted 2 through the foster care system. </p> <p>our previous pastor &amp; his wife adopted 2 from ethiopia three years ago. friends of theirs adopted a little boy from ethiopia as well. i got to spend the summer tutoring the three from ethiopia the year they came. so much fun! </p> <p>i've known a few other families as well but not as closely. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890322 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:02:43 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 890322@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Several people. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890320 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:02:21 +0000 lovehoneybee 890320@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@regberadaisy: It got worse....her husband left (during her pregnancy) because he was too overwhelmed. He ended up going back (and right into marriage counseling) but geez, you leave your pregnant wife alone with two babies?!? (Her mom moved in to help. SIL and I sent over meals a lot...she was weird about non-family babysitting else I would have tried to help more.) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890318 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:02:06 +0000 Mrs. Pen 890318@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>There was a family friend when I was really young that adopted a sibling group of 7 from the Philippines! They also had 3-4 children of their own. I thought it would be the coolest thing to have 7 more siblings! It was such a beautiful thing.</p> <p>Some of my best friends growing up were adopted.</p> <p>A family I babysit for adopted their second child from Colombia, another family I used to nanny for are foster parents, a college professor adopted a little girl from China, a church family adopted a boy from the Phillipines, family friends adopted two girls from Cambodia, and a family I was homeschooled with were foster parents for a lot of children and adopted over 5 of them!</p> <p>That's a lot. And there are more that I'm not thinking of right now. I think adoption is amazing. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890307 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:00:14 +0000 BabyBoecksMom 890307@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: holy schniky!! </p> <p>One of my neighbors growing up adopted a daughter after they had 3 boys. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890305 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:59:52 +0000 Alivoo01 890305@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My aunt adopted and we know quite a few good customers of ours that have adopted. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890303 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:59:25 +0000 MrsBrewer 890303@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes! My dad was adopted actually! and so was my great grandma on my mom's side! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890293 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:56:14 +0000 GrapeCrush 890293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh, also my supervisor adopted his two children </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890290 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:55:40 +0000 GrapeCrush 890290@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A friend of mine, one of her aunts adopted and a family friend adopted </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890286 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:54:08 +0000 Mrs. Champagne 890286@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yep! A couple of my moms cousins are adopted, and after failed Ivf my aunt adopted my two cousins :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890285 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:54:05 +0000 mrbee 890285@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>My mom! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890284 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:53:58 +0000 regberadaisy 890284@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@FutureMrsMcK: oh. My. God. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890281 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:53:29 +0000 autumnlove 890281@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, my friend's sister is adopted and my cousin is currently in the process of adopting after going through secondary infertility. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-know-anyone-irl-who-adopted#post-890280 Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:53:11 +0000 mrs. bird 890280@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yup. A few. </p>