Babies!
Added Monday, May 5th:
I’m hearing word that the internal box is saying the cut-off is the 12th. I expect referrals to continue to come in today so I’ll leave this post up on top. If anyone else wants your blog listed please leave the blog name and blog url in the comments.
Congrats again to all of the families seeing their baby’s face for the first time!!!
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As of now I believe the latest referral is for the 12th.
Congrats to everyone who made this batch!
The following blogs have pictures!
Where is Lilly?
Sunflowers and Ladybugs
As we wait for LilyKate
roysamuel
Our Journey to Georgia
Baby Izabella
Strawberry Blond??? Yes, Strawberry Blond – From China!!!
Baby Sis
Ladybug Happenings
Our Expanding Family
On our way to Olivia
The following families in the SN program would like to share their news:
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
The babies are so adorable! I just love it when referrals come out. Congratulations everyone receiving referrals!!!
LID 3/1/06
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Congratulations to all the new parents! What beautiful babies! Safe journeys.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:28 pm
WilliamsFamily, did you really get your LOA 2 weeks after you got your referral? When did you get your PA? We got our referral 4/23/08 and sent our LOI 4/25/08 and got our PA 4/28/08 and am waiting for our LOA but was told it may be 45-60 days, but if you got it THAT quickly, hopefully I will also. I also switched from NSN to SN back in 10/07, I am LID 8/14/07 and our baby is dob 6/07 SN of cleft lip and palate in Hunan.
please pray for us. We have heard of some people still getting denied LOA after getting their PA.
May 2nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Congratulations to all the parents. LID 1/13/06 NEXT. Lisa
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Congratulations!!! The babies are gorgeous and twins too!! What a great surprise!!
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Congratulations!!
RQ – can you add us to the SN list? Thanks!!
Baseballs and Ballerinas
http://www.journeytoourlittleone.blogspot.com
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Congratulations to all who’ve received their referral this month!!!
Please forgive me for posting here, but when I looked at the blog “Baby Sis”, I was blown away to see that Big Sis looks just like my oldest daughter! There isn’t any way to contact Pam or post on their blog. Pam if you read this, I’d love to talk to you. . . .my email address is nowmommaof2@yahoo.com.
Anti-spam word. . .formula (boy do I miss those days!)
Blessings,
Kim
Momma of a Changde Beauty and a Kunming Beauty!
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:28 pm
We have pictures up!
Tracy
LID 1-12-06
DOR: today!
Our Journey to Georgia
http://dayadopt.blogsome.com
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Kim, I’m having trouble getting this to post but I sent you an email.
waitingforbbsis
babysis blog
1/11/06 waiting for Monday
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:00 pm
Congrats to everyone.
we are anxious our LID is 06.01.12
Hope to be the ones this time and dont give up we support you:)
May 2nd, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Congratulations to all the new parents….who I am sure are just beaming with smiles, shedding tears of joy and packing already. Yippeeee…..I love this time of month. The babies and children are all just beautiful. Here’s to speedy travels so they have you to wrap around their little fingers and for you to hold them dearly.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Congratulations to everyone receiving referrals this month. Waiting for LilyKate…twins..that is so fab…this is the second set of twins I know about adopted from China with the same names!! How cool is that…Take care. and congrats. CTG
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Mr Paul,
Our LID is also Jan 12, 2006, and we just got our referral! Guo Jiang Zhu, DOB July 1, 2007 from Guangxi province. I’m sure you’ll get yours soon!
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
We won’t have a photo until Monday, but we hear she is beautiful…
Emily and Mel
LID 1/11/06 no longer waiting…finally parents
http://www.ladybughappenings.blogspot.com
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
tlday13-
She is so gorgeous. Those eyes!!!
Congratulations.
Laureen
http://www.babysites.com/sites/laureenmary
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 am
Please list us we are “Baby Izabella” http://www.babyizabella.blogspot.com — soooo excited!!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:57 am
Katie, we recieved our referral today dob 4/5/07 from the same province. Dont know if we are agency common, congrats hope to see you there soon. Gong Jun xi
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:54 am
anyone out there with a LID of 1/13/06 who has heard anything one way or the other?? Just curious – dying to get the call and still hopeful but realistic :)
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:46 am
A big CONGRATULATIONS to all of the new families!!! I am so excited for you all!!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 am
What pretty babies! I am so happy for everyone!
Blessings!
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:14 am
Thank you for your words Katiesfolks the week end is too much long this time:)
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am
Heartfelt congratulations to everyone with referrals! What a happy time this is!
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:36 pm
sonia:
I read what you posted and it said something that even after LOI that people were denied? What is that about?
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Koreaandchina:
I have heard of instances where people get their LOI sent to China and get a PreApproval response from China, and while they’re waiting for their formal Letter of Acceptance (or Letter of Confirmation) from CCAA, they get denied, for example one couple where the husband had a misdemeanor drug charge from 30 years ago, got preapproved, referred, but no LOA, a denial instead.
I am concerned because my friends have their referral, Preapproval, but my friend’s husband had a misdemeanor wreckless driving from 8 years ago (No arrest).
They are now waiting for their LOA but are scarred of a denial. Their agency says it should be fine b/c a drug charge is different from a driving charge, but they can’t help but be very worried!! Any thoughts?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Congratulations everyone! I am so happy for all of you!!! And a set of twins too!! How exciting!!!
Wendy
http://adoptionandfire.typepad.com
May 4th, 2008 at 12:54 am
sonia,
no not really sure. I can say this though if it’s wreckless driving that was not reduced down from a DUI or OVI which is what we call it here in Ohio, I work in the court system, that might give them a problem if China looks into that and sees that it was a dui reduced down to a wreckless. But if it’s just a plain wreckless i can’t see it being an issue.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:04 am
koreaandchina,
no, no dui or ovi, just plain stupid wreckless driving, no arrest. hope you are right, and that it shouldn’t be an issue. no drugs, no alcoholl involved. just stupidity. hope all is well for them, thanks for your imput. that’ exactly what their agency said also, that it should be fine.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:04 am
We are LID 11 Jan 06 and have not heard a thing despite numerous emails to BLAS over past few weeks, and emails to the DCFS. UK ICA adopters get such a raw deal! I am beginning to panic that there is something wrong and that no one has thought to tell us. It is a Monday bank holiday on 4 May so we have to wait until 5 May to try and work out what is going on. I just want to see her little face!
May 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am
sonia:
If they think there’s going to be questions they can always order a copy of the court transcript and submit that to their agency if CCAA asks questions about that offense. If it was due to bad weather and that is indicated in the police report or court proceeding, then that’s even better. You can even go as far as having the officer write up something and have it notarized by someone indicating that it wasn’t an agregious offense and explain to him it’s for an adoption.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
This maybe helps puts the “sickness of babies” into perspective……..Posted on May 3rd, 2008 by Nancy Reyes in All News, Asian News, Breaking News, China News, Medical News, Science NewsRead 175 times.As a doc, during the summer we would often have “stomach flu†outbreaks caused by viruses called “Enteroviruses†which merely means intestine virus. Usually it meant mild diarrhea, and it was worse in young kids. One enterovirus, however, caused only mild stomach upset, but caused lots of tiny canker sores in the mouth, and small blister on the palms and bottom of the feet. We called this disease “Hand Foot and Mouth†Disease.
The virus has nothing to do with the much more serious animal disease “foot and mouth†disease; like most diseases, the name described the disease and was easy for everyone to remember. Technically, the name is “Acute Viral Gingivostomatatitis caused by Coxsackie virusâ€, which is a bit harder for laypeople to pronounce.
There are a couple other diseases that cause similar sores, but HFM disease (photos HERE) usually was in toddlers or young kids, and you could almost diagnose them acoss the room: They were cranky, and drooling all over mom, and mom usually looked harried from being up all night with a whining Junior.
Usually we just told her to feed him lots of liquids and cool food (syrupy ice cream, pudding) while giving tylenol and dabbing on tiny amounts of numbing medicine for pain. Once in awhile, one of the kids would get a secondary impetigo or mouth infection, but usually they did fine.
The usual cause was a Coxsackievirus, named after the city where the virus was identified. Whenever we had an epidemic of enteroviruses, we had to watch out for the rare complicated case, because these viruses could also infect the brain (encephalitis/meningitis) and sometimes the heart (myocarditis). Another virus of this family is polio. But as a whole, these viruses are mild, and as long as the kid didn’t get dehydrated, complications were rare.
So I was puzzled why so many babies died in the Chinese epidemic. Was it a different bug? And the answer is Yes.
This outbreak is caused by a cousin virus, Enterovirus 71, which has also caused epidemics in Taiwan, Malaysia, Brazil, Europe and the US. And unlike it’s cousin, it’s much more serious, and can even afflict adults. In a 1998 epidemic in Taiwan, 129,000 cases were reported by doctors, and public health authorities estimated that there were probably 1.5 million cases, most of them mild. However, 405 of the cases were “severeâ€, and 19% of the severe cases died, mostly young children. The deaths were caused by pulmonary edema (the lungs filled up with fluid) or encephalitis (brain infection).
Yet another nasty side effect of this virus is a syndrome that looks like Polio. The New England Journal of Medicine has a report of how people who had severe cases did later, and found that 20 percent of those with encephalitis (where the brain or nervous system was infected) and 50% of those who had limb weakness similar to polio continued to have limb weakness.
The enteroviruses are typically spread via the “fecal/finger†route, and clean water and washing hands usually stops it. The bad news is that some cases seem to be spread via the air, probably from is via close contact with drooling kids who cough into the air.
Before you cancal your plane tickets to the Olympics, however, remember that China is a big country, and the epidemic is in a different area of China. And since most cases are spread via close contact, unless you visit relatives who have a sick kid, you should be okay.
And if your kid comes down with sores in the mouth this summer, remember it’s probably the mild type, and he’ll be better in 5 to seven days.
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Nancy Reyes is a retired physician living in the rural Philippines. Her website is Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket, and she writes medical essays at HeyDoc Xanga Bl
May 5th, 2008 at 7:43 am
Koreaandchina
I have tried to keep off this site for a few days and have only just read your previous posts. with a LID of sept 06 and a 52nd birthday looming any good news would be welcome as we are close to giving up.
Please email
julieparkinson@btinternet.com
Please
May 5th, 2008 at 9:30 am
CONGRATULATIONS to all of those receiving referrals! Happy day, what beautiful babies!
May 5th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Big congratulations to all the families receiving referrals! Love to oohh and aahh over the beautiful babies!
May 5th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Hi Anyone from Province of Quebec hed their refferal?
Us not yet
Mr Paul
LID 01.12.06
May 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
My Agency confirmed the cutoff is the 12th!! Congrats to those of you included!! Your babies are BEAUTIFUL!!
Next month I will be celebrating with you!!
LID 1/13/06
PLW
May 5th, 2008 at 11:04 am
A heartfelt congratulations to the new families. Thank you to those with blogs to let us rejoice with you. It is wonderful seeing all the babies and they are all sooo cute!
Spam word “China”, still holding on hope
DTC June 07
May 5th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Sonia~
If your friend had passed all the background checks during the Homestudy, wouldn’t they be alright?
May 5th, 2008 at 11:47 am
koreaandchina,
Could you please email me your info? I’m definitely needing some news!
Thanks!
kkratliff@columbus.rr.com
May 5th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
We have a Baby!
shes waiting in Hunan
bd 7/27/07
ht. 63cm?
wt 15.4 lbs as of dec
She is beautiful!
more to come
Blog baby sis
Waitingforbabysis
May 5th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Korea and China –
I hope you’re not getting tired of requests for your info, but I too would love to hear your “scoop”. I could sure use some encouragement.
Thanks!
karmgreg@merr.com
May 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
RQ could you move my site up to “have Pictures”
Thank you
Baby sis blog
waitingforbbsis
1/11/06
referral 5/5/08
May 5th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
hi yesterday
i receive the picture,but i want know,when they send the package
thank you
Ciro and mary
my email address is mrsrolandi@verizon.net
May 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Hi SittingTight,
Yes, you would think she would be ok, but after she heard of that other family that passed homestudy, got their I171H, got LOI sent in and PreApproval from CCAA, and then got denied LOA b/c of a misdemeanor drug charge (though it’s different from a misdemeanor traffic/driving that my friends hubbie has), that’s when she worried about her own case.
I think she’ll be ok, but the panick is in til the LOA arrives.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi Sonia~
That worries me a little because I know someone else whose husband got a dui while they were waiting. Would that be different from a misdemeanor drug charge? I can understand the panic!
May 5th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Hi SittingTight,
I would have your friend call their agency and see, I think they should be ok since it happened after the papers went in, but I know drug, alcohol, and abuse to children are taken very seriously. I think my friend with the dumb husband with the misdemeanor wreckless driving charge (no alcohol, no drug) should be ok, but it is still worrysome.
May 5th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
ok, thanks Sonia!!
May 5th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Okay, I have a question for anyone who might be able to answer it.What if you have a dossier submitted to China through one agency(NSN) and you find a SN child you are interested in reviewing from a different agency.Is it totally out of the question to pursure that child.I know of at least one agency that has posted that if you already have a dossier submitted through another agency you are not eligible for their waiting child program.
Thankful to anyone who could help!
May 5th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
We are LD 11 jan 06 and we have a referral, but not details yet. We are so excited!
May 5th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Congratulations hashingbaby!!
May 5th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
here is my blog…
http://treasuresofthesilkroad.blogspot.com/
May 5th, 2008 at 8:16 pm
sorry misunderstood-we do not have a referral yet
May 5th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Congratulations to the new families, the babies are all so adorable! Glad to see things are at least moving along!!
May 5th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
For cute blond baby, wonder if they where listed as NSN? We where considering a blond child on the special needs list. Albinism can result in anywhere from red to white hair.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
I am so so so happy for all the new forever families!!!
His,
Mrs. U
mommy to Elizabeth, born in Yangchun, Guangdong, PRC
http://www.makingahouseahome.blogspot.com
May 5th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
We got our LOA at 3 pm. Unbelivieable, it’s a boy:) After the surprise we are very happy. Congrats ton every new parent and good luck for the next ones:)
May 5th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
If I missed telling anyone Congratulations I am sorry, I am so happy for eveyone with a referral or LOA!!! And thank you to all who sent good wishes my way!
May 6th, 2008 at 9:37 am
efivewaiting46
I was told that if you want to be considered for a SN child with another agency you have to have your original dossier pulled first. Then you begin the process again with the new agency.Our agency does not have access to the SN list either. I hope this helps you
May 6th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Can you please add me to the SN referrals?
Our site is called Journey to China AND Vietnam and the link is http://chloeinchina.blogspot.com/
Thanks!