- 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.