Just wanted to see who is out there and where you are in your adoption process...researching, homestudy, waiting for referral, waiting for travel? Which country?
We are waiting for travel for our son, Sam, who is in Korea.
Cynthia
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DS2 (17 mo) waiting for us in Korea! (traveling June 10!!)
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We currently have 2 foster children - they will be 2yr and 3yr very soon. Both of their bio-Mom's have voluntarily surrendered their rights, the bio-dad's have had their right's terminated.
We are currently waiting for CPS to get all of the paperwork ready for adoption in each case (unrelated cases). We are also waiting for our agency to transfer us to their adoption unit so we can begin looking for a lawyer that will work with us on both adoptions.
The kids are doing great, we are just waiting on the paperwork and a date...
Our family is complete! We have one bio daughter and 2 adopted from China. Emily has been home for 4 years and Katie for 2 years. Everyone is growing and such sweet joys!
I'm interested in reading how everyone else is doing, too!
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~13 year old (born preemie @ 24 weeks), 5.5 year old & 3.5 year old (both born in China!)~
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We're in the process of approval but have been talking with an expectant mom who is due in Sept. If she chooses us, we'll get moved to priority with our agency and they'll get our homestudy done.
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2 rounds of clomid w/ no success
HSG 4.19.07 - all clear
4 rounds of shot/IUIs - BFNs
4.2008 - applied to adopt
5.2008 - matched with birthmom
9.2.2008 - our son is home!
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We are foster to adopt 0-3. Just finished paperwork with private agency and officially sent to Home Study today. Just be licensed within the next couple of months! YAY!
I am so excited!
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Finalized Brittany's adoption- 6/03/09
8/16/09- Call for a premie baby BOY, waiting for him to leave the hospital.
Waiting for Kade's TPR, court- 8/31/09
MY husband and I started our adoption process in Feb. We have taken our classes and are doing our home study the first and second week of May. We are adopting through CPS and are willing to adopt a sibling group. We are wanting to adopt children under 4 but will probably get our homestudy approved for children up to 8.
Cassi
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TTC #1 since 2004
Dx'd with PCOS: October 2006
2/26/07 Dh s/a #2~Under 1 Million!!!!
IVF #1 -3rd Beta 7/9/07~11 M/C
FET #1 ~ 10/1/2007~ Negative
1/1/08~ Starting Foster to Adopt
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Finalized Brittany's adoption- 6/03/09
8/16/09- Call for a premie baby BOY, waiting for him to leave the hospital.
Waiting for Kade's TPR, court- 8/31/09
I grew up in the Houston area but Now I live just south of Dallas
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We are just waiting for home study approval so we can send it off to Rwanda. Hopefully soon we will be officially waiting!
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mommavia-can i ask what agency you use? how long was the wait? i have started looking into korea. i like the idea that you can use an escort. it would be hard for us to travel with DS.
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We are waiting for the final paperwork from the attorney to be filled with the courts! We did foster to adopt. DS1 was 4yr DS2 was 25mo when they were placed they are now 3 and 6.
mommavia-can i ask what agency you use? how long was the wait? i have started looking into korea. i like the idea that you can use an escort. it would be hard for us to travel with DS.
For our first son's adoption we used WACAP and loved them! I was disappointed we couldn't use them again for our second adoption when we moved. This time around we are with Children's Home Society and Family Services (in MN) and love them too. Our process has been different because we fell in love with a waiting child and did not really wait for a referral.
Time lines are varying depending on the agency because of the size of the program. It seems that the process generally runs 9 -18 months. Certain agencies can only place in certain states because of their contracts with their Korean counterparts. A gerat place to start is to check out www.adoptkorea.com to see which agencies work in your state. A couple agencies can place in all states, but you sometimes need to be open to mild or correctable medical needs (such as a low birthweight). And if you find a sweet waiting child (on the agencies own waiting child site or www.rainbowkids.com) they can sometimes work with you then.
If you'd like more info about adopting from Korea, let me know!
Cynthia
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Proud Mom of DS (3 yrs) born in Korea AND
DS2 (17 mo) waiting for us in Korea! (traveling June 10!!)
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We finished our homestudy at the end of March, received the finished report(s) in April and were just chosen by a birth mom in Florida last Friday! She is due October 5th...We find out the baby's sex in another week!
DH and I are just beside ourselves with excitement and anticipation. Thank goodness we have a lot to do to prepare ourselves, this should help time pass without wishing our lives away! We get to prepare for our little one but we also get to really emphasize our relationship, sleeping, deciding to go to dinner at 8 p.m. on a Wednesday without a second thought!
It really has helped lift me up since this is an emotional time for me. Had we not miscarried our twins last October (thank God it was early) we would probably have given birth about now since their due date was June 12th but twins tend to go early. So anyhow, I've had some emotional moments but I feel them protecting me and I find comfort in knowing they are free and happy!
Our homestudy was entirely painless and we loved our social worker. I hope people can try to relax and be themselves during their interviews.
xox
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DH & I started the process in Feb. We just turned in all of our paperwork the end of April, got a worker assigned to us about a week and a half ago, all the questionaires are in from our references, and our sw is going to expedite our paperwork since we had it all there - instead of bits and pieces! She is going to try and get everything done (interviews, homestudy, etc) by June 1st. (Or start June 1st, dh and I are a little unclear about that, so we are waiting for a callback from her again to ask.)
Where in the process are YOU? 
