Married. 46. Adopter, who decided not to adopt.
How did you prepare for adoption?
“We wanted to try and adopt an Indian baby, for obvious reasons. ”
Why did you decide not to adopt after all?
“...the last eight years we’ve been trying for the next step, if you like, which is a baby. I think, in reality, we’re thinking well, if we take on a child at the age of 46, when we are in our late 50’s our child will be doing his or her 11+ and all ”
How did you admit that you no longer wanted to adopt?
“And it was at that point we realised a lot of people were feeling what we were thinking now, feeling that three years ago but they were too scared to tell us because they didn’t want to spoil our… our enthusiasm. ”
“ ...it was harder to conceive naturally. We went down the IVF route for about four years and were unsuccessful so adoption seemed to be the next step. ”
