Doubts...

I had many, many doubts about doing it. I felt really nervous about getting a child this way. Very scared and still possibly a bit sad. I caught up with a girl I went to school with and she randomly (had no idea we were looking into permanent care) mentioned this beautiful boy she knew of who was about 3 and who was looking for a permanent family. He had basically been raised by one foster mum and was a lovely little boy. So, like a crazy lady I started to get obsessed with him. I thought I wanted a baby, but soon realized I just wanted another child and I didn't really care how old they were. I called DHS and found out that the next training for pc wasn't until February, 3 months away. I called all of the training places in Victoria, but there weren't any sooner. They also told me that we probably wouldn't be matched up with this little boy. They would try to make it like a natural family order, so they would need to be younger than Hugo, who was only 2. It was frustrating. We were able to arrange a meeting with this boy through friends, because apparently they give priority if there is a relationship established, but a few days before we decided that maybe we should just wait to do the training and see who they would match us up with. It turned out that the boy was only a little younger than Kitty, so it really might not have been fair to bring him in. DHS said we would do the training in Feb and probably have a child by April, shorter than a pregnancy. Finally we started training. *It's possible DHS have very different time measurements to the rest of us.