After no luck conceiving, we’re turning to adoption – is it the right choice?

DEAR DEIDRE: WE are just about to start the process of adoption because, after eight months of sex and no pregnancy, we feel we are doomed.

We are both 30 and we’ve been together for three years. My girlfriend had a miscarriage this year and she was devastated. We both were.

It wasn’t a planned pregnancy but when we knew we were expecting a baby, we began to look forward to it.

Then, when she was almost nine weeks pregnant, she woke up to find she was bleeding. She...