Our SDA Appointment

We met with the SDA today and accepted a referral for a young boy who will be two in August. They did not have any sibling groups of 2 under the age of 6 -- all were much older. This boy's medical file says he is healthy but is slow development, just starting to walk and talk. We have heard that this is common for children in orphanages. We will leave very early on Thursday morning to go and see the child. Dr. Yuri will meet us there to examine the child and give us his medical opinion as well.

We hope this works out - the SDA says that there are 70 couples waiting for second referrals and that it is several weeks to get this second appt. The boy is located in Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky, just south of Odesa.

Jeff and I think that the SDA stacked the deck - most children they showed us had very bad medical files and were passed on by other families. There was only one good referral in the batch and they were hoping we would choose to visit this child. We feel very fortunate to have a good referral the first time through as many couple have not had this and are still waiting for their second appt.

We may be out of contact for several days and up to two weeks if we decide to adopt this child (depends if there is internet available in this location, we don't know).