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05-04-2008, 05:58 PM
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Profile Books/ Dear Birthparent letters
I feel like I'm missing something, but these two things seem rather redundant. Is the Dear Birthparent letter separate, or like the first page of the profile book? I really need to get started on it, I think our homestudy should be done in a few weeks! Just read in another thread that some people were being shown before their homestudy was even done, wow!
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05-04-2008, 07:05 PM
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Usually the dear birthmom letter is the first page of the book. (And just a suggestion, some people prefer to use other terminology like Dear Expectant parents.)
Our boo started with a family picture and our name. The next page was the dear e-parent letter. In this we did the majority of the talking about us. Jobs, hobbies, edcuation, etc. Then there were several pages of pictures with short captions. Your agency should be able to give you more guidance as to what they would like to see. Some only want a few pages, some want a dozen or more. Good luck!
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Marci 03/21/06 Home study officially approved and we are waiting! 07/20/06 Cameron born 1/23/08 Home study approved for #2!!!!! 3/10/08 Spencer born 9/22/08 Finalization scheduled!!!!
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05-04-2008, 11:15 PM
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Like the PP said, each agency has their own ideas and guidelines so you may want to follow up with them. Our profile started with our 2-page dear expecting parent letter and was followed by categories about DH, me, our home, our family, and our hobbies with pics in each category. All in all, it was about 20pages. We also had a separate dear expecting parent for our own marketing.
Good Luck!
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04/07 - Completed PRIDE training and foster/adopt home study 06/07 - Switched to domestic adoption 09/07 - Home study converted to domestic adoption 10/22/07 - Matched!!! 11/16/07 - Baby J born 11/17/07 - BF decided to parent 02/09/08 - Matched!!! 02/14/08 - Backed out of match...too many possible medical concerns. 03/18/08 - Matched to baby boy born 03/15/08 03/19/08 - Devin placed in our arms 
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05-05-2008, 07:02 AM
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I JUST finished our profile, and the letter was the first two-page spread in the book (ordered through snapfish)
because I had 20 pages to fill we had it broken down like this: letter-2 pages about me/about dh-2 pages our marriage/life before kids-2 pages about dd/about ds-2 pages our home-2 pages pets/holidays and special traditions-2 pages extended family/friends-2 pages travel-2 pages random photos of us and kids-2 pages the first and last page was just a fun family photo of us. hth!
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Bio daughter  Bio Son  Adopting #3  December 2007: Decided to adopt January 4 2008: First contact with agency February 15 2008: Attended agency orientation March 4, 2008: Home study and interviews April 19, 2008: Completed application, Fingerprints, Child abuse check, Criminal background check, and home study all turned into agency May 1, 2008: email from agency that they need our profile..."your wait will be significantly shorter than predicted" May 3, 2008: Profile submitted May 14, 2008: Profile approved May 17, 2008: Officially "Approved and Waiting"
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05-06-2008, 08:19 AM
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20 pages... WOW I had no idea!
We are just FINALLY getting out of the research stage and submitting our application this week! So I am not really that far yet. I guess I better start collecting my pics and documenting our life story. It sounds like a term paper... yeesh!! Somehow I bet it is a lot more fun though. I am actually really excited to put it together. It seems a lot more thrilling than fingerprints and bank statements no?? Good-luck guys! Gina
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