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blessings & sealings
We have been fortunate to adopt 6 infants in the past 9 years! We were told by our local temple that the blessing had to happen before the sealing, but after the adoption was finalized, so that membership records were made and retained correctly for the child and for our family. Recently a friend was told that she could have her child blessed at 2 months even though they didn't finalize till 6 months! She did have her sealing at a different temple than the one we went to and maybe each temple has different rulings about the blessing.
I do know that you have to have current adoption papers to do your sealing with your name as adoptive parents and etc. We had our 2 youngest sealed to us in the Provo Temple so their big brother who was at the MTC could join us!! It was fantastic! WE had to do the sealing during his "usual weekly temple time"--but it was great! His whole Korean district came and supported us and it was an experience to remember! (Of course, they all are!)
One of our adoptions took longer to finalize because of bf challenges (that all worked out in the end!) but our son was a big 11 month old when it came time to do his blessing---The men just made a "bridge" with their hand and arms and he "sat" on their arms and my husband held him and so the baby could look around the room while Daddy gave him the blessing! He was a very quiet little boy while Daddy prayed and I was grateful! I saw someone else have the adoptive mother hold the child in her lap and then the brethern put their hands on his head for the blessing. We are a wonderful creative people, aren't we?
Best of luck to all!
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