This past Monday we started the home study portion of the adoption process. We met our case worker for the first time (who is also named Danielle). The initial meeting went very well as we discussed motivation for adoption. Future meetings will cover our families, marriage relationship, and an evaluation of our home. I estimate that we will done with the home study by the middle of December. Next Wednesday we have our second meeting in Wheaton.
Part of our home study process is to complete ten hours of training pertaining to adoption. We are required to read the book Dear Birthmother, a "classic" book about open adoption, or the relationship between birth mothers, adoptive parents, and the child(ren). It has been a thought provoking book so far. We will start discussing it with our case worker during our next meeting. In addition, we also completed eight hours of online training through Adoptive Learning Partners. These informative (yet too basic at times also) pertained to relevant adoption topics such as attachment, discipline, multiracial families, talking about adoption, and creating the profile. Creating a profile for birthmothers to review in order to pick us is the next step after the completion of the home study. More details to follow about that. I would love to have the profile assembled by the end of the year.
Well, that's about it for right now. We'll continue to provide updates along the way, hopefully at least weekly.
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