Identify your home study and placement agencies (if different agencies), and apply to both.
Complete the home study process
Complete your adoption profile to be shown to prospective birthparents
Submit your home study and family adoption profile to your placement agency, and wait for the news that a birthmother has chosen your family.
Once your family has been chosen and the baby has been born, the birthparents’ parental rights will be voluntarily terminated.
Bring the child home from the hospital or soon after release from the hospital.
Complete the post adoption requirements.
**Note that this is a summary of the main steps in the adoption process… This is not a comprehensive list of the entire process.