My wife and I had a lot of difficulty becoming parents. We had multiple miscarriages and ended up going the IVF route. When this finally, worked, our little girl was born at 25 weeks and 5 days and 1lbs and 14.5oz.
As such, when we wanted another child, we were very interested in going the adoption route. We had our concerns including but not limited to would we feel the same about our adopted child as we did our daughter, what is the family medical history like, would the baby be healthy, will the baby ever want to leave us and go back to their birth parents when they get older?
Now looking back on it 6.5 wonderful years later, none of those questions matter. We have a son who is absolutely tremendous and all we could have asked for. Never do we think of him as adopted, he is just our son. All of this was possible because a young expectant mother made the mature decision that she was not ready to be a mom and thankfully trusted my wife and I to raise her son as our own. We are eternally grateful to her for this blessing and belief in us and this is something we will never be able repay her for.
To this day, both the birth parents and their families send our son Christmas gifts and birthday gifts. They even send gifts to his big sister. We also send them Christmas cards and pictures periodically. If we ever needed to go back with detailed health questions, I know they would be more than willing to help. When the time comes and our son would like to meet his birth parents, we will be able to help him do so if he chooses. For our family, open adoption has been such a blessing that not only we but our son can have communication with his birth parents.