[Weluv2swim]

Good morning all!
This is my first post and I desperatly need your help. We are currently in the China program with an LID of Feb 2007. As many of you might know, China has slowed down horrifically that I might not get my referral for a non special needs child until 2010-2011 if things continue as they are. Yes, we know, anything can happen but it doesn't look good. I called my agency yesterday to talk about alternatives and they suggested Russia. She gave me the time line and we could be home, with our daughter by the end of '08. Some of our paper work would need to be updated but she suggested that we are pros at it since we did it all for China very quickly. She said this is the time to adopt through Russia because only a few US agency have received accreditation. I am afraid to get my hopes up and I need some help from all you BTDT parents who have gone through this already. How is the paperchasing? Have any of you travelled blind? (husband an family MD and she said we have an advantage) How "healthy" are the children, FAS, etc? The inflammatory Newsweek (?) article didn't help my dh last night. Did you take other children -nearly 6 year old ds? How stable and reliable is the program? We are afraid Putin will shut everything down in the middle of this. I am sorry this is quite a bit but I am at a crossroad. My dh is thinking about pulling out all together and be thankful that we have our ds -which I am but I am emotionally vested in this and don't know which path to take. Thank you.