So yesterday we inquired about a special focus child. I never expected to inquire about a child because it means the child has more extensive needs, but I saw a child and wanted to know more. She was right around a year old and did not have a right hand. Her birth family abandoned her at 5 days old. Her history said that she was not yet crawling (not at all unusual for orphan care) and had some developmental delays. We were interested to know what type of developmental delays she had. The good news is that the little girl found her forever family last Friday but the bad news is that she is not ours.
In this journey we will not get a referral for a child until we have a LID. LID is the date our dossier is logged in to China. We have to complete our dossier (a long process that I talked about yesterday), complete our fingerprints and have them approved, have our dossier sent to China and then sometime after that we will have a LID. We are hoping to have a 2012 referral, but it could be sometime early next year. We will wait for a child that matches the special needs we feel we could accommodate in our family. Sometimes it happens right after your LID, sometimes it is many months later . The good news for these children, but the bad news for us, is that waits are getting longer. Waiting families are more willing to take minor special needs so the good news is that there is less of a wait for these children to get to a forever family, but longer waits for families. The bad news is that children with more extensive needs wait a very long time. Once a child has not been matched and has waited for a certain period of time, they become a special focus child. You can request to review the file of a special focus child at any time in the process.
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