It's getting very complicated
Following our decision with Zukhran, we are left with just one child we are considering for adoption, but our adoption agency quickly sprung to work to try and see if there was another girl under age 3 available. The healthy ones are in high demand, but they did manage to find one in a baby home located in a small town 2 hours outside Novosibirsk (it is technically one of the 5-6 baby homes -- with 60-70 children unfder age 4 in each -- that are in this Novo region).
There are a number of concerns at this moment regarding this potential referral, most importantly that she has a sister who is also in an adoption center. The thing is, they are in different ones. Background: They were both taken away from their mother a year ago for neglect. Not sure why they were placed in separate homes, but an additional situation is that grandmother wants to adopt the older but can't afford to take on the younger one as well -- therefore there is a separation document on these girls, which allows them to be split up if necessary (Russian officials make that determination, and always try and keep the kids together. Grandmother's entrance into the process is what prompted the allowance for separation). Our translator said that since the girl was separated from her sister at age 1, and has spent a year in a baby home around all new sisters and brothers, and has not been in the same home for the past year, she likely has little or no connection/knowledge of her older sister.
But the baby home is trying to locate that separation agreement for Russian officials. If they can find it and fax it by Friday morning, we will travel to see her Friday afternoon. But our flight leaves Sat a.m. and so we'd see her only one time, have no back and forth with our IA doctors on her medicals, unless we change the flight. And if we don't see her tomorrow, and leave for the States, we could see her on our return trip for Ruslan, but that would be our first visit for her, so we'd have to come back again (a third trip) to complete our adoption of her. There's more potential stuff ... but i'll stop there. My head's getting dizzy.
It's getting very, very complicated.
There are a number of concerns at this moment regarding this potential referral, most importantly that she has a sister who is also in an adoption center. The thing is, they are in different ones. Background: They were both taken away from their mother a year ago for neglect. Not sure why they were placed in separate homes, but an additional situation is that grandmother wants to adopt the older but can't afford to take on the younger one as well -- therefore there is a separation document on these girls, which allows them to be split up if necessary (Russian officials make that determination, and always try and keep the kids together. Grandmother's entrance into the process is what prompted the allowance for separation). Our translator said that since the girl was separated from her sister at age 1, and has spent a year in a baby home around all new sisters and brothers, and has not been in the same home for the past year, she likely has little or no connection/knowledge of her older sister.
But the baby home is trying to locate that separation agreement for Russian officials. If they can find it and fax it by Friday morning, we will travel to see her Friday afternoon. But our flight leaves Sat a.m. and so we'd see her only one time, have no back and forth with our IA doctors on her medicals, unless we change the flight. And if we don't see her tomorrow, and leave for the States, we could see her on our return trip for Ruslan, but that would be our first visit for her, so we'd have to come back again (a third trip) to complete our adoption of her. There's more potential stuff ... but i'll stop there. My head's getting dizzy.
It's getting very, very complicated.
posted by The LeForts | 9:27 AM
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