Last week we finished submitting all the photos and essays to our agency so that they could create our profile for birth mom's to see. We were told it would be 10 business days until we saw a draft, so we were expecting to see something next week. Tonight we got a surprise though: our rough draft of our profile!
Ohmygosh! It is just so exciting and scary to see our pictures and words brought to life, knowing that this is what our next kiddo's birth mom is going to use to select us.
Our adoption specialist really only had two suggestions for us, one being a small word change, and the other that we only use photos of Squirt as a toddler, rather than as a baby, so that birth mom's don't think we have a super little one at home already. Squishy and I spent some time looking through photos and e-mailed back some changes. We will keep going back and forth like this... them sending us a draft with suggestions, us making changes... until we are all confident that we are presenting our best selves.
The agency uses our profiles in 2 ways. First, all active families are featured on their website so that if a pregnant woman visits their website they can see potential families. They also send birth mom's hard copies of profiles for families that match their desires. For example, if a birth mom wants her child raised in California, on a farm, by a family that already has kids, the agency does a search and only sends her profiles of families that match. While each profile is going to be unique as far as images and essays go, the agency uses a standard 4 page booklet format. This makes it easier for a birth mom to compare and contrast and eliminates a birth mom judging a family based on whose profile is more elaborate.
Over the next few months, we will probably have our camera with us wherever we go so that the agency can continually keep our photos up to date, especially the ones of Squirt. So if you see us out and about doing something fun or looking cute, please help us out and snap a few pics. Please & thank you!
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