[Fran27]

Relax!!!! I know, it's easier said than done, but they're really not picky.

Our SW only wanted to see that we had a smoke alarm and a fire extinguisher at every floor, and that we had a room for the baby. She took notes of how many bedrooms etc too (went to every one of them, even our messy basement). And that's it.

Obviously we spent a week cleaning the house beforehand... but the baby room was a bedroom at the time, the house was not baby proofed AT ALL, and one of our dogs even put his nose under her skirt, and jumped all over her... No problem. There was even poop in the backyard but she never went to check. For the update a year later, the baby room was full of clutter, the house wasn't half as clean anymore, but the dogs were safely put away, lol. Still no problem. Oh, and our kitchen was (and still is) a lethal place for babies, with open shelves everywhere totally in a baby's reach.

What matters is that you have plans to baby proof the house (or put a gate so the babies can't access the dangerous parts, in our case), you know where the baby room will be (our nursery was actually finished when the babies were four months), and that you don't have dog poop and trash everywhere.

About the renovation, it will depend on how big a renovation it is, and on the SW. We wanted to have our kitchen redone, and delayed our homestudy update because of it because she didn't want to pass the homestudy with the kitchen being a mess.