Getting Started

This past Summer we decided to begin the adoption process. We got in touch with A New Beginning Adoption Agency and applied and were accepted! We are so glad to be working with this agency again.

We worked with A New Beginning with our first adoption and at that time we choose them because they were locally based and had a caseworker in our area. We also had friends from church who adopted through them; one was a domestic infant adoption and another was through the foster program. Both friends had great things to say about the support of the agency and the guidance they gave throughout the whole process. 

After our application was approved, we went to the infant adoption training in early September. We drove 6 hours to get there and enjoyed the time in the car to talk. The training was fabulous! We attended sessions all day on Friday and then a half day on Saturday. We were fed meals and snacks and had plenty of time to get to know some of the other adoptive families at the training. We were at a table with two other couples, both of whom had biological children at home and it was great to get to know them a bit. 

The training covered the overarching process that we'd be going through, as well as different aspects of the legal side of things, what the day at the hospital might look like, discussions on open vs closed adoptions, and lots of other things. A health professional delivered an excellent talk on babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome disorder. Another professional in the foster system talked about the connection response that children develop in their early years. We learned a lot and we were encouraged by the resources the agency provided.

We are looking forward to the process, working with our caseworkers and praying for the health and safety of the birth families and babies.