[danimom2005]

Hello everyone we just had our first meeting with our social worker so far so good except i forgot to ask questions like i have my police record and my hubys and both are clean but we had them last year and do we still need to get new ones even though they arent quite a year old and I just found my 13 yr olds birth certificate except its from teh hospital just showing hse was born and i forgot to ask her if that is ok or if i still need to go and get one from the courthouse.
So i just forgot to ask questions cos she made us so at ease it was like we went to a friends house we have another meeting scheduled with her for the 15th so she is not very busy now so we can get this dien pretty quick.
I have a question once she gets through the visits and and gets all documents seh needs how long will it take to complete the adoption and can anyone explain a little bit abotu the post placement i have been looking online about that but havent found anything. Any help is great!!!!

[StorkWatcher]

Hi - I can't remember if you're going through the state or a private agency.

We did private agency in Indiana, and our post-placement was nothing much. The caseworker came out, and spent time sitting in our living room. We chitchatted a little. She wanted to hold the baby, (just because she's a mom and loves babies). She really just asked us if we had questions, if we felt we were bonding well, how everyone had adjusted to the baby, how our families were doing w/ a new grandbaby, and how the baby was doing.

We talked about if we wanted to adopt again, what process we'd have to go through to update and the timeframe (they require we wait at least a year before we start the process again).

She didn't walk through our house at all or even look at the baby's room. Of course, the entire downstairs looked like a Babies 'r' Us store, so she could see we had the necessities to care for him.....

She went over the process and paperwork we'd need to complete for the finalization and advised us to contact the lawyer just to follow up to be sure they'd received her final report.

I doubt she was there 45 minutes. We were a little nervous beforehand, but once she was gone, we laughed at ourselves. It was much less of an ordeal than the home visit beforehand.

[thebozz007]

Congradulations on your first visit for the Homestudy. I bet you were nervous. I am still in the gathering phase of the adoption process. How long was your first visit? Were there any questions that surprized you during the interview? Are you adopting internationally or domestically?

[Emster]

The post placement helps the agency worker write the report that has to go to the courts with the petition to finalize. Our social worker wanted to know all about how we were adjusting, if there were problems, development of the baby, making sure doctor's visits were occurring, etc. Lasted about an hour including all the oohs and ahhs and showing the baby off to other workers at the agency. Our post palcement was done at the agency not our home because it was in a different town. I know post-placement for international gets a little more involved. May be a more formalized process and I know most countries require at least 2 post placement visits, some more.

[danimom2005]

we are doing a private adoption she was placed with us by a friends of my brother's stepson. We have now had 2 meetings with her and she is coming out on the 29th to do the home visit. But we were very nervous but the social worker told us "I am here to help you adopt not to stop you from adopting" and that put me to ease and the questions were pretty simple nothing surprising the only was surprise was how easy it was and quick. Now comes the home visit. I just want this to be over and it has been over a year since she was laid in our arms and jumped in our hearts.
I cant wait I just hope the wait to finish is not as bad as the wait has been so far.We never even looked up adoptions or knew anythign baout it until we got our DD and then to find out all this and now that we know abotu the home study we still do not know what to think about the post placement and how long it take to finalize and then the whole getting the SS# so just keep thinking about us and I will kep you all in my prayers