In-process check in!

[gnomesweetgnome]

Hey everyone!  sunshinelady's post got me thinking, we haven't had a round-up post in a while where we can all update on where we are in our adoption journeys.  Please post below!

[gnomesweetgnome]

My husband and I attended an orientation meeting with a foster care agency last Tuesday. We've already turned in our application and most of the paperwork needed to get started on our home study. DH attended his first training class last night (we are attending them all separately due to scheduling/babysitters/etc.), and I did one of my online trainings yesterday afternoon. We are scheduled to have all our training completed by the end of April. This is moving really fast for us!

[jenn]

Great idea, gnomesweetgnome!

We are in the ever-so-fun 'waiting' stage. We haven't been asked about a specific situation in a while so I may try and touch basis with our SW to see how things are going. I just hate this part because everything is out of our hands. I just wish there was more that I could do to hurry things along... haha.

[chicago]

Domestic Infant Adoption. Still waiting ... 56 days.
Our agency has added 7 new families to their waiting families page and only removed one. Not the way we wanted things to trend. I'm trying to not get too antsy. Despite originally not planning to do a nursery ahead of time, we have a cute one setup and are waiting on the glider.

We had 2 potentials that didn't work out since starting the wait ...

[alaskadee]

Domestic infant adoption.
We just had our home visit a few weekends ago and I received a rough draft to review and tie up some loose ends.

We've been slowly working through everything since Oct.

I was really excited to learn that in the first 7 weeks of the year, our agency has had 50 AP chosen by birth moms. Makes me feel hopeful

[jwinct]

Foster-to-Adopt via our state Department of Children & Families.

Our last training class is April 6th. We're in the process of finishing up our homestudy interviews and our licensing SW hopes to have us licensed by the end of April.

[browneyes8]

In waiting stage for our second child..... going on 16 months and feeling anxious, frustrated, and a bit sad.  Our match for our first child was really quick. We added some additional outreach sources to our process recently, although we continue to get great exposure and positive feedback from our main agency- just no match yet! 

[trytobearunner34]

Domestic Infant Adoption here through a facilitator/agency. March 12 marked our 6th month of officially waiting. I had been saying once we hit 6 months I'd like us to try to do "something". So in the last few days we widened or preferences just a tiny bit, sent our agency some outreach cards, and are going to look at editing our agency website a little. Other than that we wait...

[chele]

We have been fostering for 13 months and are about to have the girls reunified with their mom within the next month. We really want to foster to adopt, but have received no phone calls. We may do just respite care when the girls leave because we really want to be available should the need arise for a F-T-A home.

[packerfan4life]

We have a beautiful 6 m9nth old girl through DIA. Finalization is scheduled in just over a week! My H and I are throwing around the idea of starting the FTA process this fall, although I'd anticipate a relatively lengthy wait as we'd be looking for an infant (younger than our daughter)

[shemarie82]

Waiting in the process of FTA (birth to age 4). We have turned in everything, just waiting for contact from the SW to schedule for home study. We have been waiting since Christmas time. We just had to do a new orientation because of policy changes from the state.

[redandblue]

We are at the end of the approval phase of adoption or foster to adopt through our local CAS. One more session next Monday and then we meet with our SW in the next couple of weeks to review our home study report. We have stated that we are looking 0-6 years and possibly a sibling set of 2.

[pinkie]

We are waiting for finalization of our little guy (DIA). We have one home visit remaining in early April and we hope to have our court date be for mid to late May.

[roxy]

I've been out of the loop for a while. How dare work get in my way so much!

We are still waiting, waiting, waiting. However, we did have a match meeting on Tuesday. We had only asked for more info on her, but her SW was very insistent on meeting with us in our home. I don't think that we would be a good match for her, but it was nice to get a feel for how those types of meetings go. I will say though, that it was incredibly difficult to not let my heart completely take over my brain.

[persianmaman]

Doing international adoption - we had our home study interview about two weeks ago and our home tour next Wednesday. Then we wait for HS approval while we continue to work on our dossier for South Africa. Once the HS approval is done, we're planning on sending out the I800-A to USCIS as soon as we can. (I800-A is permission to adopt internationally from a specific country from the Fed. They also have to approve again after a match.)

[perumom]

International adoption (Peru). We have been in the dreaded waiting period since January which is when our dossier made it to Peru. We are waiting to be approved by Peru and then we will wait to be matched with a sibling group. I hate waiting!!! I really, really hate waiting!!

[theatrepal]

We are waiting and waiting some more. Our agency does an adoption study group and that has just started. It's good to feel like we are 'doing' something while we are waiting.

[redandblue]

roxy, that is great that you had your first meeting about a potential match. Do you mind me asking how that went? What were something of the questions asked of you or that you asked the worker? We are almost at the final approval phase and I am really curious to know what that looks like exactly! I am also worried about my heart taking over my brain! It seems like it will be such a difficult balance!

[chicago]

Mar 18, 2015 16:02:17 GMT -5 alaskadee said:

Domestic infant adoption.
We just had our home visit a few weekends ago and I received a rough draft to review and tie up some loose ends.

We've been slowly working through everything since Oct.

I was really excited to learn that in the first 7 weeks of the year, our agency has had 50 AP chosen by birth moms. Makes me feel hopeful

Holy Cow!  50 matches.  Are you part of a national agency?

[roxy]

redandblue, I don't mind you asking at all. Her SW spoke for about an 1 1/2 about her history and then her mental health worker spoke for about 30 minutes. The good - they didn't spare any details; the bad - they didn't spare any details. Her workers didn't really ask many questions of us during this meeting. They wanted to see where she would sleep, where our bedroom was in relation to hers. They also wanted to know why we wanted to be parents and what we were most excited about in becoming parents. We were able to lay out our concerns and ask for clarifying details on some points that we were confused about.

I will say that the meeting was much easier than reading case histories. They really did stress all the good things about her and how much progress she has been making. I think that is easy to overlook when you are merely reading their evals.

I hope that helps though feel free to ask me anything. Good luck with your next stage!!

[lizblue]

Hi y'all.

We submitted our application for domestic infant adoption at the end of February. Our first counseling session is next week and we've set up appointments for two group home study appointments in April. Our SW said that she will spend May writing our final home study and we will have our educational classes then as well. If all goes well, our profile should be done in June and then we go "in the book," waiting to be matched.

I know there is a long road to go, so I'm trying to stay patient and take it as it comes.

[alaskadee]

Mar 20, 2015 7:49:52 GMT -5 chicago said:

Mar 18, 2015 16:02:17 GMT -5 alaskadee said:

Domestic infant adoption.
We just had our home visit a few weekends ago and I received a rough draft to review and tie up some loose ends.

We've been slowly working through everything since Oct.

I was really excited to learn that in the first 7 weeks of the year, our agency has had 50 AP chosen by birth moms. Makes me feel hopeful

Holy Cow!  50 matches.  Are you part of a national agency?

We are part of a national agency

[pinkie]

Mar 20, 2015 14:54:45 GMT -5 alaskadee said:

Mar 20, 2015 7:49:52 GMT -5 chicago said:

Holy Cow!  50 matches.  Are you part of a national agency?

We are part of a national agency

That is insane!  About how many waiting families do they have?  It's mind boggling because it's only March.

[milehighmama]

We are about 6 months into our FTA placement. Waiting on a date for finalization.

[alaskadee]

Mar 20, 2015 18:43:41 GMT -5 pinkie said:

Mar 20, 2015 14:54:45 GMT -5 alaskadee said:

We are part of a national agency

That is insane!  About how many waiting families do they have?  It's mind boggling because it's only March.

Right! I'm not sure how many waiting families, but I feel like a large amount

[sgb721]

We're waiting. 2 years and 2 months now.

We signed on with a national agency in December so I have fingers crossed things will start to move along.

[lovelyplanet]

DIA home study approved but waiting for our profile meeting. It's scheduled for next week. After the meeting we get to create our profile so we can officially go on the books. Can't wait!

[lbey]

Had our 2nd home study. 3rd one scheduled for the 30th.