Our family is interested in doing this. Anyone been through this process? Do you have an agency that you worked with that you would recommend? I'm trying to find out as much as I can as we are thinking of possibly beginning the adoption process in about 6 months to a year.

Thanks!

I recommend without reservation our agency Villa Hope in Birmingham, AL.

They have place thousands of children and are absolutely wonderful.

Go to www.villahope.org to check out their programs. We adopted from Peru and Bolivia. How exciting for your family!!!!!!

ETA: Just went to their site. They JUST added China!!!!! Woo-HOO!!

Hello!

We are waiting (not so patiently) for our little girl, Ellie:) She is in the Gansu Province in China, and the hope is that I will travel to get her before the summer is out. We are using China Adoption With Love, which is based out of Boston. They are awesome. I'd be more than happy to talk with you more about this!!!

Thank you for the replies, mamas!

Emilyb, how exciting for your family! I think that I will pm you separately to talk about your process.

djmdj - I've always been so inspired by your family to adopt. Thank you for taking the time to recommend villahope.

How exciting! We adopted through CCAI (www.chinesechildren.org) and I LOVED them......would use them again in a heartbeat!

My Aunt Went through The Great Wall of China 3 years ago now. I was honored to be invited to join to China. My experience of the trip was Amazing and smooth. I'm not sure about the details of the adoption, but I thought I'd let you know the name. Good Luck.
beth