Our son was in a public orphanage, but was baptized (we received record of the baptism). Seperate question - his baptism was on Christmas Day... does anyone know if this is common?? It seemed strange to me..
On the name change - we did change our son's name. We bought his plane ticket in his Polish name as we were not planning to change it, but changed our minds once in Poland. It was absolutely no problem to call the airline and have the ticket changed to his new name.
~sarah
based on a true story...