Where is everybody...?!!!

[misspollysdolly]

Is it my imagination (quite likely!) or has there been a lot less chat about Adoptions on MN recently...?

Where did everybody go...?! Is there a secret adoptive Mummies forum that I have yet to discover...?! Or is it just that everyone DCs have calmed down and are being little angels in stead or worrying their parents sick?! Or is it since MN changed to this daft new look?!

Please come back so I don't feel like I'm completely on my own...!!

FWIW I was also just wanted to say (just as a secret little pat on my back) that I have been DD's mummy for six whole years today...! Phew...no wonder I'm tired! Hope everyone is OK...wherever you all are!

congrats on your mummy birthday.
i was thinking exactly the same, cant have all abondoned MN.
we go to panel again in july so should have a little girl sep/oct with a bit of luck.

we have obviously been abandoned!

Well done. we have just past out 7 year family day!

I am far too busy being important in my new job to talk to the likes of you lot......

i am here! do i count? we are going through the process at the moment and hating it. i feel ready to go right now but the bureacracy is getting in the way and is killing us. i couldn't bear that programme last night as it is too close to home. however seeing those three boys - i want them! they looked divine, we'd love to adopt them.

keep with it really, its all worth it in the end.
ignores kew

Take a look at my DS on profile - will keep you going as he is as close to divine as a 3 year old gets It took 3 years door to ddoor for me and the initial stages seem like a distant memory.

Is it any better second time around? Are more chilled because you have DS already?

Anyone know how bran is getting on with their new DD?

So glad I've not been thoroughly abandoned!! Hang in there reallylostitnow it will be worth the rigours of the process in the end. What's the new job, Kewcumber? Too busy for MN? - Never!

I don't know if I count as I'm trying to adopt my step son.

I don't know if that comes under adoption or step parents .

Also, as his mother died (whilst his parents were married), it seems even the social services don't know how to justify it or work it out!

yes alot more chilled and not as URGENT. panel shopuld have been may now july but no big deal., before we would have been distraught. are you thinking of another then?

thank you... we're hanging in there but its hard. social workers are so negative and seem to jump on our every move looking for something negativbe to say. and there are the children i keep thinking of - havinga crap time in foster care, and with our lovely house ready and waiting for them right now. i musn't think about it to much or i might kidnap someone.

yes have alwasy planned a second but am having a few health issues which are not yet resolved and so I don;t think council would even consider letting me go ahead wihout them being diagnosed and treated. in the meantime my age is clocking up an dits looking less and less easy to consider taking on a little one again - both form the energy and financial perspective. ANd yet I desparately don;t wasnt DS to be an only child.

Have given myself the end of this year as my cut off - if I can't get something going by then I will probably ditch it.

I have only just found the 'adoption bit' of MN. We have just celebrated our ds's 9th birthday ( also the day he came to us... we are so lucky!) and will celebrate our dd's (age 10) 8th year with us in july.
Finaciallyscrewed- I have a step dad who started the adoption process when I was about 9 and then the whole thing lost momentum and petered out. I wish he had followed it through... I still love him and consider him to be my dad but at 42 I still have the feeling of being on the 'edge' of the family... I wish he had thought it important enough to battle through the red tape like you are.( For the record... he is a great dad!)