I haven't posted on here because we've been in waiting periods and Thanksgiving and Christmas time are crazy. But there have been great updates the past few weeks in our adoption process. We submitted everything in October and the estimated waiting time is 6 - 8 weeks to get approval.
We were notified the Tuesday before Thanksgiving that India approved us as adoptive parents! This is a huge hurdle to achieve. They didn't even ask for additional paperwork or make us redo any, which is shocking.
We had a call with our social worker later that same day. She told us it would be possibly 4 - 6 months before we would be matched with a child. With only about 700 children on the registry on any given day, it's really hard to find a child who is under the age of 3 with minimal health needs. With 20 - 30 million orphans in India, this is tragic. But it's the place we're in right now.
Laura, our social worker, let us know that there was a little girl already in the system the day we were approved. Her name is Mahek and she will be 1 in February. We've spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out how severe her kidney issues are.
We didn't have a formal referral for her, so we were in this weird limbo of whether we should submit her medical records to the U of M adoption clinic. Instead, we tried to get some minimal guidance from doctors who could just give us a simple, "yes, this is a treatable illness, or no, this is a lifetime of dialysis and transplant." We found a clinic that was so willing to help, until their business office got involved. Then, they said they could only advise us if we had her on our insurance. Kind of the point! She's of course not on our insurance plan. We hit a little bit of a dead end, at that point.
So, then, we were waiting again....
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