international special needs adoption

[kaia.aline]

could anyone give me any links for blogs or websites that talks about adoptive parents expirances with international special needs adoption? DH and I have decided that we would like to pursue an adoption. i feel really strongly that a special needs adoption is the right thing for our family, and would love to read some peoples expiriances as i am researching agencies.

[Beth.]

http://reecesrainbow.org/

There are a ton of links from the RR site, both to families that are in-process and families that have their kiddos home. The RR site gives you a good idea of the special needs kids in Eastern Europe that are waiting for their forever families to find them.

Not sure what country you are looking at, but the China special needs programs are popular too. http://www.chinesechildren.org/ is my favorite China agency. Not sure if you'll find any blog links there though ...

[kaia.aline]

thanks for the links! reeces rainbow look awesome! esp since we are wanting to adopt a down syndrome child!

[andreusmommy]

We adopted our two 6 year old kiddos from Ukraine last year, both have Down syndrome, and we found them through Reeces Rainbow.

[kkmoto]

Spence-chapin.org is also a great one

[myname2]

www.rainbowkids.com is a wonderful site with a huge photolisting and lots of articles/information/links about special needs international adoption

http://www.nohandsbutours.com/ I bookmarked this site, too, but haven't spent much time on it.

Both of my sons were special needs international adoptions
Amanda

[FindingMercy]

One of my favorite blogs to read is by a mom who has 4 adopted kiddos and 3 biological. Two of her adopted girls have DS and were adopted through Reece's Rainbow.

[FallBabies]

We're in the process of adopting from EE, and I'm documenting our journey through a blog.
If you want to read it, it's
http://alongtheroadadoption.blogspot.com