Well now we sit and wait. So I won't have a lot of adoption related info to share with you for the next few months. I have joined a few online forums for soon to be adoptive parents. There are a lot of people out there with interesting and greatly varying experiences. One lady I spoke with (okay typed with) received a referral of a 10.5 month old little girl from the Moscow region after waiting only 1 month! That is amazing. She of course isn't working with our agency, but a different one out of Pittsburgh. I have learned SO much about the adoption process in the past 4 months. If any of you know of anyone who is thinking about doing this, feel free to have them contact me! It really does make a difference which agency you go with. They all have "relationships" with different regions within Russia. Some of those regions are near Moscow or St. Petersburg, which is a much shorter travel time/distance and some of them are all the way across Siberia. Did you know that it takes nearly 9 hours to fly from Moscow (near the western end of Russia) to the eastern tip of Siberia? That is nuts! And I hate to fly!!! Some agencies can get referrals of younger children and some tell you the youngest you will find is 2 years +. The Cradle is one of the biggest agencies in Chicago and they tell you it will take 12 months to get a referral of a little boy and none of them are under 2 years. Obviously thats not true everywhere.
Its a learning process. I'm sure I have a lot more learning to do!!
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