Can You Adopt A Newborn Baby

On average american adoptions completes the adoptions of 300 healthy newborn babies per year.

Can you adopt a newborn baby.

Our trained staff will assist you throughout the entire adoption process. Each member of our staff has been touched by the miracle of adoption. In international adoption it would be unlikely to adopt a newborn baby for some of the same reasons as adopting from foster care. We offer the most affordable adoption programs in the country.

However newborn adoption does refer to something specific. Other types of adoption like foster care and international adoption cannot always promise families a newborn. In cases involving infant or newborn adoption the birth parent or parents may have a say in who the adoptive parents will be which could slow down the process a bit. And in most cases of domestic infant adoptions the baby will be discharged directly from the hospital to you the adoptive family.

These phrases are used interchangeably in most situations. A few states require temporary cradle care before placing the baby with the adoptive family members. When parents adopt a baby under 6 months old from the u s. You may be able to adopt a young baby but international protocols brought in by the hague convention to protect children would normally prevent a child from being adopted so immediately after birth.

Even more specific than that the vast majority of newborn adoptions occur at the hospital shortly following birth. Infant adoptions are very common. It depends but generally speaking when adopting a newborn the baby can be between 24 hours old to three days old. The truth is in the numbers.

And can take anywhere from six months to several years.