Adoption journey

[dreamofabean]

Wow can't believe how quiet it is in here now! Lol
How is everyone?
We're all good here, I've been back at work for 3 weeks and LO is starting to really settle in the new routine now and seems happier he's still clingy of an evening but I can deal with that!
We are having him christened on 28th so are busy sorting everything out and getting organised! I just need to find an outfit now! Lol.
Hope everyone's doing well xx

 

[Monkey78]

Hi all, yes very quiet here, but that always means good news. And talking of good news, we were today formally matched and approved with our beautiful little pink this morning. So happy, and relieved its all nearly complete. She will be home with us in a couple of weeks.

Hope everyone is well
Xxxx

 

[dreamofabean]

Ah monkey that is fabulous!! Congratulations honey!!
When do intros start? Eek!! X

 

[Try Rocking]

Hi ladies! I can't say I've read the entire thing, I made it to almost 70 pages before I skipped to the last few pages lol
Congratulations to all you wonderful mamas that have their babies and good luck to the rest of you Hopefully it all happens soon!

My husband and I are literally just starting the process. As in we are just being mailed the first forms to get everything going. We are looking at adopting a certain child, a little girl who we met at our daughter's preschool. She is a happy little girl, 6 months older than our daughter. I don't know what's going to happen, I do hope it all works out but I can only keep my fingers crossed and try and get everything done (on my end) as soon as I can.
I'm going to check the mail tomorrow and I'm hoping the forms will be in there so that this weekend my husband and I can focus on getting the forms filled out and hopefully mailed back on Monday.

Thank you all for sharing your stories

 

[Lolly1985]

Hi everyone!

Monkey massive congratulations lovely!! So thrilled for you!! You must be over the moon, nearly there now!

Good luck TR, hope those forms are there so you can get the ball rolling! Does your daughter know of your plans?

Dream I'm glad to hear things are settling. What a massive relief. And clingy in the evenings is quite nice as it shows how much he's missed his lovely mummy!

How is everyone else?

Today marks a year since we met our daughter. I'll never forget walking in and seeing her in her little pink dress on her foster carers knee. She looked like a tiny dolly, beautiful and just perfect. Well that little lady is growing up fast. I spent lots of yesterday calling nurseries and we're going to look round one Wednesday, eek!! Her 2 year funding kicks in January but we're thinking of her starting a couple of mornings from November. She's more than ready. Baby blue is up and down with reflux and feeding problems. It's extremely hard and it looks like we may be heading downhill again. Life is so hard when he's sick. Poor baby. Anyway today my brother and fiancée arrive for the weekend so better go, gotta get a food shop done before collecting them at 11!

Love to all xxx

 

[Try Rocking]

Thank you! The forms weren't in but hopefully early next week. It would have been nice to have had the weekend to work on them.
Our daughter doesn't know, we haven't mentioned anything to her. She is friends with the little girl and sees her at school (although now that the teachers have ended their strike the little girl will be moving on to Kindergarten). I don't want to get her hopes up, I don't know how things are going to go. If by chance it doesn't work out, we would still like to go the adoption route but we would wait until things are more settled here before we adopt.
We know the little girl is going to be adoptable sometime within the next year which is why we're moving on it now rather than waiting. She is such a sweet little girl and we would love to have her in our family and we don't want to lose out on that chance.

She sounds like such a doll Lolly! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

 

[Loski83]

Hi all, monkey congratulations to you and your family so happy for you.
Dream pleased your little man is settling into a routine and enjoy them mammy cuddles in the evening.
Try rocking hope the forms come soon and good luck with it all.
Lolly little pink will love nursery I think it's us that are more scared lol. Hope your little blue starts feeling better soon. Hi to any lurkers hope your all ok.
Loads been happening our end we just celebrated our 2 years together with lo and we had a little party for this. Lo is going to the college nursery and is starting the local authority one as well this Monday she's not 3 till end of October so seems early she will love it though.
Feels like it's all go here at the moment hopefully we can get into a settled routine from Monday.

 

[Try Rocking]

Thank you No forms yet, I will be checking the mail again today.

Happy 2 years! That's wonderful!
My daughter would have started preschool early had it been up to her. She's such a social butterfly. Some kids just thrive going early, it sounds like your LO will!

 

[Lolly1985]

Hope those forms have turned up TR! I also really hope all goes smoothly and the adoption of this little girl is meant to be. It sounds like you will all be perfect for each other. Keep us posted!

Thanks Loski! Lovely to hear from you, you all sound busy but happy Wow, 2 years, it's flown hasn't it, but equally I'm sure it feels like she's always been with you. Saturday marks 1 year since little pink came home forever! Hoping for a family day to celebrate

Hi and hugs to all! Well, nursery was great, little pink skipped off and I think she'll be just fine! Yesterday we wrote the letterbox which was weird and in all honesty, I nearly forgot all about it. She is ours in every sense of the word so I found it odd... but it's done, until next year that is. Little man is still struggling on. Another hospital trip today One day life will calm down!! xxx

 

[Try Rocking]

They just came in today! I'm super excited. I want to rip open the envelope and go through everything and start filling out forms but I'm waiting on a guy who's going to draw up some plans for us for our house expansion. I don't want to have to put it down part way through.

I'm sorry your LO is ill. Is it an ongoing condition?

 

[Lolly1985]

Hooray for forms!! It's happening now!! Bet you can't wait to get going!

Thank you. He was born 8 weeks premature and suffers from bad reflux which literally stops him feeding. He's 16 weeks Friday and still only 7lb 15oz and in newborn clothes. Bless him! My daughter thinks he is her real life dolly....!

 

[Try Rocking]

I'm already halfway through the forms. I knew there'd be a lot of personal questions but wow! I'm hoping hubby can complete his forms tonight and we can get them mailed off tomorrow or Friday!

He does sound like a little doll! Is there anything that can be done to help him feed easier?


*edit* Ugh, just saw the physicians page. Now I'm waiting to hear back from the doctor's office so I can make an appointment. *sigh*

*second edit* I got a call back from the doctors office. Apparently he is seriously booked up and the soonest we can get in is the 20th of October. There go my plans of getting the forms mailed back quickly!
There's nothing I can do for that so I'll work on the forms (obviously not a huge rush now), get my husband to fill out his and then I'll be counting down until the doctors appointment. At least I will hopefully be able to mail out the forms on the 20th?

 

[Monkey78]

Some wonderful anniversary news on here. Loski I can't believe its been 2 years, thank you for starting this wonderful thread. And enjoy your celebrations. Lolly nearly a year for you too, wow so much has happened, and you now have your two little darlings.

Try Rocking - fab that your forms have come through, its all steam ahead for you now.

Dream - Im still waiting on the intro schedule to come through. hoping we will start our meetings next wed/thurs. We have to wait for our ratification letter to be posted from the Agency first (which is normally received 7-10 days after matching panel) before they send the schedule. I literally fight with the postman to grab our post everyday, still not arrived tho !!!

I finished work last friday, wanted to take this week off to prep, clean, cook and have some me time ! Ive been laid up since monday with flu/cold and now a stomach bug, so havnt achieved much and now Im getting panicky !

Can anyone recommend a car seat for an 8month? Im looking at buying one that will last until approx 4 years, but to be honest im bamboozled by them all !

xx

 

[Lolly1985]

Oh no TR, so annoying about the wait. But like you said, at least you can spend your time on the questions. I remember how invasive they can be, good luck with completing! As for little man, well we're on a combo of medicine to help him and if no joy by weekend we will hopefully get the dietician on board. We have a home visit from community nurse this afternoon so fingers crossed she thinks he's looking well today.

Monkey sorry you've been so ill. Hope you are better very soon but better getting it out the way now. Just stay away from hubby! As for the carseat I would always go maxicosy, just because they are good quality, reputation and easy to use. How heavy is little one? Worth finding out as they go of weights. Little pink was in a baby seat until about 17 months because she hadn't hit the 9kg weight criteria to move on, which is average weight of a 9 month old!

 

[iow_bird]

Hi again ladies
I posted a few months ago thanking you for sharing your storie, not sure if you remember me.
I just wanted to thank you again! I have a wee foster baby here, he turned up at 6hrs old. He's waiting to be adopted I'm so so glad it found your thread, I would find it so difficult to let go of this wee precious soul. But knowing there are mummy's & daddies out there waiting for their wee ones to come into their lives has let me feel so privileged to look after him while he waits for his forever home. I'm so excited to meet his adoptive parents and see them begin to bond with him

 

[Nicki123]

Happy anniversaries to you Lolly and Loski. I am still following you all, even if mostly quietly. Love this thread.

 

[Try Rocking]

iow wow that is so young! That's wonderful that they already have someone lined up, not to mention someone like you to care for him until he finds his family

Lolly good luck on the dietician! I can't imagine how hard that must be

I honestly can't even remember what car seat my son has, he's using my daughter's old one that we just got her out of right before he arrived.

No news here, still waiting for the doctor's appointment next month. We told our families what our plans are and they're super excited, especially my MIL lol

 

[dreamofabean]

Hi all,
Hope everyone's well
Our LO went straight into the stage 1 seat when he came home at 9 1/2 months. He was about 2lbs below the weight limit but far too long for the baby seat!
Well we had a very busy weekend last week! We finally got our precious boy baptised
Saturday was traumatic as when we collected the cake... It was pink! Yup, you read right! The lady argued it was beige (it was dusty pink!) but I had ordered white! Grrr! Lots if stress and we ended up with an ok cake, but certainly not what I had ordered!!
Sunday was just perfect! We had about 110 people, mainly family and then a few very close friends lo's fcs came which was lovely! He was the real star of the show and made everyone laugh in church when he got soaked by the vicar who literally just poured water over his head (not over the font!)
He was soaking wet and looked rather bemused! His hands were out as if asking what was going on and he kept looking at me and daddy rather accusingly! :Haha:
The party afterwards was lovely and we just savoured every second I was so proud I could have just burst!!!
I've been shattered this week at work as a result but I'm now done for the week so going to relax a bit

 

[Try Rocking]

Wow sounds busy but wonderful! I hope you guys got some great pictures! Sorry to hear about the mix-up. Hopefully she offered you a discount or something in return for a pink cake when you ordered white.

No news here, still waiting on my appointment on the 20th with the doctor. I did give him the forms when I had an appointment the other day (they want us both to be seen and I was there for something else) so he's going to take a look at them and hopefully everything will go smoothly at the appointment.
I don't see why it shouldn't but just in case.

Other than that, the little girl we hope to adopt is now in kindergarten so I don't even see her at daycare anymore. I sent a note home with her before she left for her foster parents if they're interested in her having a playdate with Amira but I haven't heard back from them. I wasn't really expecting much but regardless of what happens, my daughter still enjoys playing with her.

 

[Monkey78]

We finally met our beautiful little pink yesterday. she is absolutely adorable, we feel so blessed. A truly wonderful day, spent with the best foster parents ever. We have a full week of intros (spending 5-6 hours per day with her) Then she will be home for good next Tuesday.

I cannot tell you how happy I am and just wanted to share the news with you all, we are finally nearing the end of a very long journey xxxx