With adoption you have to go through a lot of paperwork, providing personal information such as birth certificates, background checks, fingerprints, reference letters, and other legal paperwork. Once all that is done, you just have to wait for a phone call that could come in a couple months or a couple years. With giving birth, we all know how it starts... Once a child is conceived, then begins the doctors appointments, physical changes to the pregnant woman, and making crucial decisions about how the birthing process should go. Both processes come with a crazy amount of stress, emotional ups and downs and ”what ifs”, not to mention waiting for that special day you finally become a …show more content…
The anticipation builds the whole time as the future mother and father imagine the child's reaction when he/she finally gets to meet his/her new parents. When the day comes for the pregnant mother to give birth she is in a lot of pain, with doctors and nurses coming and going. They are constantly checking on both the mother and the baby to make sure they are both healthy before she goes into labor. Once again, the anticipation building until the moment she and her husband get to meet their brand new baby. Anticipation during the waiting period and excitement to meet their new child is one of the things adoptive parents and biological parents have in common. With adoption you don’t always know what to expect. There are times when the adoptive parents don’t receive any medical background on their adopted child, or the child’s biological parents. They have to discover many things for themselves and be prepared for any health issues that may surface. For a couple giving birth, they know more or less what to expect, health wise. Based on their genes and any known hereditary diseases, they will have a good idea what their child’s health will be like. While this is true, things always happen unexpectedly, and nothing can be predicted with