Children's House International Adoptions

Good News!

nina — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:21:14 +0000

In the final hours of our China Special Focus group 6 we ended up placing a total of 7 of the children in homes! This is wonderful news….Unfortunately for the BOYS, 6 of these children were girls…

While we rejoice at the girls finding homes, the sad reality is that currently 75% of the children waiting for placement in China are now BOYS! I see the same sorts of statistics in my Eastern European programs and virtually all of the children waiting for homes in Morocco are male. As a mother of both a daughter and a son I can’t imagine not having my BOY!

Hurry, Hurry, Step Right UP!

nina — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:49:10 +0000

In two more days these darling children go back on the list and are in danger of never finding their families. This can be the very worst part of our job, the worry that children will be “lost” to finding a family. Please spread the word!!!

CASPIAN , DOB 5/10/2008 Male, SN Strabismus, low muscle tone in lower legs CLINTON ( DOB 8/31/2010 Male, SN, CHD GRANT DOB 7/10/2010 Male, SN torticollis of right neck and thorax, missing radius in right hand JACKSON DOB 9/3/2010 Male, SN CHD: ASD; congenital cleft lip and palate III

LAURA DOB 11/25/2006 Female, SN Multiple brown spots on body, Hep B+

PIERCE DOB 4/1/2011 Male, SN Contracture of right hands and bilateral varus feet

Welcome Home Clara and Rumen!

nina — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:17:59 +0000

A Huge Welcome home and happy first Mother’s Day to Joleigh who welcomed the beautiful Clara home from Bulgaria this weekend! Clara was known as “Raine” on our blog.

AND a huge welcome home to Rumen and his Dad Scott home from Bulgaria too!

Are YOU my Mommy?

nina — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:29:22 +0000

Little Clinton looks worried. He is worried his Mommy has been searching, but has not found him yet. Clinton will turn two in August and it would be wonderful if he had a family waiting to bring him home. For more information on this adorable little baby please email Heidi at heidigoestochina@msn.com

What are YOU Waiting For?

nina — Wed, 09 May 2012 23:09:53 +0000

Sometimes you see a profile of a child and I have to think “what are they waiting for?”…those words crossed my mind as I read about our new special focus child “Faith”. Faith was born with a small cleft in her soft palate. It has not been repaired. She is described as “Always happy, forever optimistic and just a true joy to be around”. Faith has some delays in development at this time. More information about this lovely and exuberant 4 year old can be obtained by emailing Heidi at heidigoestochina@msn.com.

Baby Beth and So Many More are Finding their Families!

nina — Mon, 07 May 2012 22:19:24 +0000

For those of you who have followed Baby Beth’s story, she has a family scurrying to bring her home as quickly as possible. We have also found families for two new children in Morocco, and six new children in Bulgaria!!! We also have one new child home from India, two families on the ground in Bulgaria picking up their children and two families in China celebrating new additions to their families!

Sadly we have only 10 more days to advocate for our remaining special focus children in China. They have all been assigned a Brittany’s Hope Grant to help their families bring them home!

I also had sad news this week for baby Irina. Her intended family had unexpected tragedy occur and has had to pull back from adopting her. She lives in the same orphanage as Baby Beth and I would love to see anther family step forward for her! Please email nina.t@chiadopt.org for more information about little Irina.

Welcome Home Filiz!

nina — Wed, 02 May 2012 23:35:19 +0000

We are very excited to welcome home our first Bulgarian Princess of 2012. Her mother traveled to pick her up just two weeks ago. I know that her mother is happy to finally have her home and they will do wonderfully well! Welcome home Filiz! I posted about Filiz http://childrenshouseinternational.com/little-miss-polly/. Oh my! How far little “Polly” has come!

Baby Beth Update

nina — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:54:45 +0000

Baby Beth is holding strong as she undergoes treatment for her infection. We have a family interested in adopting her and hope they will submit their paperwork by morning.

I’m For Beth’s Life!

nina — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:48:38 +0000

One of my first emails this morning was an update that baby Beth has developed an infection while in the hospital. I am awaiting additional information as to her status, but now would be a good time for prayers.

Baby Beth Update

nina — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:44:45 +0000

Baby Beth is still waiting for her family to come forward. Due to the combined efforts of CHI and our partner foundation in her country she was seen by a neurosurgeon on Monday and her back was cleaned and a better barrier dressing was applied to help shield her from an infection to her spinal chord. There is still not a permanent solution for Beth in her home country. She will die if she is not adopted. It is merely a matter of time before she develops an infection that will lead to bacterial meningitis. The ideal situation for Beth is for her to be adopted by a family who is home study ready for a Hague convention country. This would allow the family to move forward quickly to bring her home. I have mentally debated with myself on sharing the reality of her situation with you. I don’t know if it is possible for you to comprehend, looking at her glum little face what it feels like to be Beth.

For the first nineteen months of her life she laid in her crib watching the world around her with a pounding pain in her head. A pain that would intensify when she was raised to sitting or even when her head was placed on a pillow to incline. The pressure of a spinal headache is crushing. She could not lie flat on her back due to the large swelling of her spinal hernia. Laying uncomfortably on her side, with a big ole’ headache she was fed, her diaper was changed and her caregivers kept a donut shaped dressing on her back.

I am not sure why it was finally decided that little Beth should have shunt surgery to relieve the pounding pressure in her skull. In the words of one Orphanage Director in her country it is now more “fashionable” to install shunts to all children with hydrocephalus. FASHIONABLE, really? I am glad it has gone out of fashion to allow children’s heads grow to the point of agony and death.

It is really hard to see the fashion in this. So now Beth waits, her back is as good as it is going to get in her country. She has developed a raw covering of granulation tissue over her spinal chord.

Does it hurt? Probably. Does she suffer? Yes. Will she walk? Not likely. Can she learn, grow, love and interact not in her country, but she could, in our country, with a family. If you might be Beth’s family please email nina.t@chiadopt.org.