congratulations on the recent referral for a little boy!
i LOVE toddler aged kids!
anyhow,
our agency encourages us to let then know our choosen name for the children as the caregivers will then call the little ones by that name (or at least that is the theory
). they also encourage us to send pictures so our children/babies get to "know" us a bit.
im thinking an agency will do all they can to help acclaimate a child to his new family. maybe due to uncertainty the fm or caregiver may be told to wait until a certain point before slowly incorporating the child's new name. but maybe they will start right away.
if your not sure how your fm/caregiver and/or agency truely handles this you could call your son his familiar name for a few weeks, a combination of his "new" name with the familiar name for a few weeks then slowly just his "new" name.
again,
congratulations!
cris
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cr653
3/18/05 Referral! of TR2
7/19 PINK!
...7/27/05 HOME!
10/04-2/05 referral and passing of
Little Dairin, "heaven's cutest angel" almost 2.