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South Africa is good and in many ways straight forward - but also quite slow. And in some ways it is similar to domestic in that your proflie is shown to an orphanage and they then "match you" with a child. It's taking a broad spectrum of time - anywhere from 10 days to 2 years to get a match - which is very challenging. Once you are matched you travel within 4 weeks - so you need to be ready. In some ways that is good, though, as the babies are quite young and once you are mnatched you get your baby quickly. I think the way Guatemala does it (or Haiti, etc) would be very hard for me - knowing the baby is there but can't go there for months...
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Mom to bio dd - age 16 - 
Mom to adopted ds - age 10 -
Waiting to adopt #3 from South Africa
December 2005 - Began Homestudy
May 2006 - Homestudy approved - 
June 2006 - Profile in South Africa
July 2006 - waiting for a referral!!!!!!
Nov 2006 - Referral - it's a boy!!!! 
Dec 27th - leave for SA! the countdown begins....
January 22nd - Home in Canada with new baby boy. 
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