So, as I mentioned on a previous thread, I am planning on leaving work and being a sahm once my adoption maternity break from work ends. As a result, we are now frantically trying to assess budgets and plans. For example do we invest big spend now in our house or squirrel away the cash for when we drop one salary. However I'm struggling to find out how long the process is in general between panel approval and matching with a child (and our sw has been very vague) so it's hard to know what decisions to make between saving and spending. I am hoping we will go to panel sometime around April (I hope, I hope, I hope!). Any idea on roughly how long then the matching process might then take?? I read in a telegraph article that the average weight is 4 years!! Surely that's a scare story!!! If it's 4 years I may as well invest in a kitchen extension after all!