The title of this blog is a bit of a joke, waiting for the adoption time line reminds me a little like a prison sentence. How long is this going to take? 3 to 18 months is what the social worker told me today about how long it will take to get placed with a baby. That is different then a match, a placement is when the baby is actually in your possession. In a perfect world I would get to be a mother before Mother's Day, but that would be pretty amazing. So I will go on hoping and praying.
I did receive a call from the social worker today, she left me a message and I called her back after work. Yes, I said after work, we finally got back today. It was so nice to see the kids.
So back to the phone call. The social worker said that she received the book and loved it. So that was nice to hear. As far as, my mistake with putting our last name in the book I can only hope that is makes us seem more human to the potential birth mother. There are 17 families also waiting. There is no list that we get to climb because the budget, birth mother's desires for an adoptive family and some other stuff I guess determine if we will be shown to the the birth mom. Before we are shown to the birth mother we will be contacted by the social worker and asked told as much information about the birth mother that is available. Then we will decide if we want to be shown. Three families are shown to a birth mother and she selects from those three, or keeps looking if she doesn't like any of those families. So right now the agency doesn't have any birth mothers. The slow months are January, February and March, so hopefully it will get super busy in the spring. And of course with all the snow around here we are really in for a boom of births in the next nine months.
So for now we just wait and wait and wait. I am going to try to paint the baby's room and get it ready for the baby that will someday call the room home. I found some paint colors that I like and may go and get some samples to put on the wall and compare.
Please feel free to ask any questions that you may have about the process.
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Crossing my fingers for a big baby boom and lots of babies available soon. No one deserves to be a mom more than you, Stephers!! all of your friends and family love you and are cheering for you!! -lauren
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited for you, Steph! You are going to be the greatest mom on the planet! Can't wait to hear how things are going. I can't imagine any birth mother not selecting you!! Love you. Kathy
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