After our last home visit our worker gave us good reason to think that she could complete our paperwork quickly and that we could get approval pretty fast. So that week she called us with more clarifications and last minute paperwork to get signed. One of the forms holding up our process was additional verification from our physicians making sure that we were indeed healthy. Ted made a personal appearance to his doctors office to hand deliver a form and they returned it that day. But our efforts were to no avail because our worker went on vacation. Nerds!
While our worker vacationed, we tried to keep ourselves busy. We watched webinars on adoption (because we still have 10 required hours of training before placement). We added to our registries (shout out to my friend Kim who gave me quite an education in Babies R Us). She came to my rescue or really Ted's. We also attended an infant care class. What an education that was. They dismantled all the things that I grew up with. Don't use powder. Don't use certain lotions and shampoos. Don't do this or that. The Madeas and the Big Mamas of the world would have been in dismay with all the things the nurse told us :) Nevertheless the information was useful. We took lots of notes. I learned how to change a diaper. Finally! We also bought the book, "What to Expect the First Year". This book is huge! We have lots of reading to do.
We also had to generate a profile book. This is what the birthmother will see when she chooses families. Please see the link on our blog that we shared via Shutterfly.
The saga continues...
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