1. The Application and Approval
I have covered a lot about this process in earlier posts. It's long and frustrating but it is the only process that you have control of how quickly it goes. If you procrastinate it will take forever! Normally it takes about 6 months because of state back ground checks, the quicker you get your paperwork in the sooner they get the results.
I would compare it to applying to a new job. You put your best self out there, hope your references say nothing but nice things, and you make sure you get them whatever papers they want. The emotions don't really go to crazy, stress is there but you have the control so you handle it the best you can.
Of course the majority of people don't tell family and friends that he are going through it until they are approved. You have a close knit group who know because they are your references but that is really all you are comfortable in telling. So you learn how to fake emotions. You smile and act like nothing is wrong, yet you have the home study in the back of your head. So the emotions can be tricky all depending on how private you keep things.
Then there is also the excitement. How will you announce it? How will your family react to the idea of adoption? When can you start to buy baby stuff? You get to start day dreaming of bringing home your little one! As someone who went the path of fertility treatments that thought is a very forgotten one. You start to look at pintrest and make private boards. You are excited, you have a hope you haven't had in a long time, you are hopeful! That is what the application and approval process is all about....
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