After Holiday Update

We were having problems communicating with our caseworker during December so I sent out an email on Wednesday night addressing our concerns. I guess that did it! She called later that night to go over them and answer pending questions.

Here's the update she shared with us:
The average wait time currently for a referral is around 5 months (that gives us around 4 months to go). Better then the huge range of 2 -12mos they state on the website.
This will give us lots of time to work on the Nursery.

We have to go through more medical exams at home and in country. This will possibly include a psychiatric exam depending on the region (which we won't know until we accept the referral).

The medical we receive on the child is not a complete medical, we will not get that until we are in country. On our first trip we sit down with the orphanage director and go over biological parent info and medical concerns and are able to ask more questions then.

There is now a 3 trip requirement with the second trip being up to 30 days.

1. First trip (7-10 days will be time spent with our little boy and our medical exams.
2. Second trip is our court date and the 10 day wait after court. This will let us enjoy our child's birth country. We hope to do a lot of sight seeing.
3. 1-2-3 strikes we're out of there and on our way home with our new baby!!!