Why Vietnam?

Well that's a loaded question isn't it?!!!!
We have looked into and thought about adoption since going through infertility with our first child. Our perfect first born came by quite a suprise! Then the expensive emotionally exhausting invitro fertilization that produced our second miracle baby!! We had seriously looked into adoption before her. Jeff felt ivf would work for us, and it did. But I couldn't get adoption out of my head. I've researched adoption for so many years. I researched every known way to adopt! I researched EVERY Country out there. Ultimately it come down to what was meant to be for us. I knew of many people that had adopted domestically and have a fabulous family. But I also knew of many that thought they were getting a baby and having to deal with the birth mom changing her mind. So international adoption was meant to be for us. We signed up with an agency that handled adoptions through China in April 2006. This was one year after I had tried to convince my hubby of this before. I prayed that I would either lose my urge to adopt or he would feel the same way I felt and want another child now as well. I don't want to have any regrets when I'm older looking back on my life. They say it's not what you've done you'll regret, it's the things you have NOT done! (one of my favorite quotes!)
Due to my business expansion (for some reason I like to keep that stress level high!) our paperwork got put off for around 2-3 months. We started the dossier paperwork for China. We thought if we had it all done by the end of summer and logged into China by September it would be the following fall when we would travel to China to get our approximately 1-yr old girl. Then as we progressed we found out things were slowing down in China as far as referrals due to an increase in the number of applications. It may have been 2008 before we would travel. I started researching Vietnam since it has reopened this year and had 6-months under it's belt. I wanted to wait till some of the kinks were ironed out and found a great agency that does a lot of humanitarian work there. They have a great foreign faciliator and reputation. We are now almost near the end of our paperwork! Once we are on the list it may take 4-5 months for a referral of an infant (4-12mos.) girl and approximately 3-4 months to travel. With adoption there are no guarantees. I'm hoping we'll be back home with our little one by next summer. Hubby and I will travel there for approximately 2-weeks. Please pray it all goes fast and smoothly!