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Home study question

LIQueenLIQueen
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Our social worker is coming on Thursday to finalize our home study.  What types of things did you do to your house?  Did anyone do anything differently or just made sure it was clean?  I know she is not looking for any baby proofing to be done or anything as we are adopting a newborn.  Anything else I should think about?

 

Thank you!

7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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  • sgb721sgb721 member

    We did a big clean (the house definitely needed it though from the holidays as our Home study was 12/29). We made sure to take our dog on a big long walk in the morning before she came to burn off some of his energy so he wouldn't be nudgey during the interview. She didn't look for safety stuff other then smoke detectors, and CO2 detector.. but really those should be in your house for your own safety.

    You'll be fine- just try to relax!!

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    We did a big clean (the house definitely needed it though from the holidays as our Home study was 12/29). We made sure to take our dog on a big long walk in the morning before she came to burn off some of his energy so he wouldn't be nudgey during the interview. She didn't look for safety stuff other then smoke detectors, and CO2 detector.. but really those should be in your house for your own safety.

    You'll be fine- just try to relax!!

     Thank you.  Thank you for the dog reminder!  We have a 110 pound happy lab that loves attention and new people so I will be def making my husband(who works from home) take him to the dog park to run around for a long time, right before our social worker shows up and while I am driving home from work.  Good idea!  We need a tired dog!  :)

    7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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  • jenjen930jenjen930 member
    My final home study visit from LCFS was so easy. She spent like 5 minutes looking at the house. You'll do great!
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    What agency are you adopting through?
    7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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  • jenjen930jenjen930 member
    imageLIQueen:
    What agency are you adopting through?


    Same as you. Angel and LCFS for the home study. :
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    imageLIQueen:
    What agency are you adopting through?
    Same as you. Angel and LCFS for the home study. :

     

    Nice, any hits with your profile yet?  That would be so neat if we adopted around the same time with the same company!

    7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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    imageLIQueen:

    imagejenjen930:
    imageLIQueen:
    What agency are you adopting through?


    Same as you. Angel and LCFS for the home study. :

     

    Nice, any hits with your profile yet?  That would be so neat if we adopted around the same time with the same company!



    That would be so awesome! I have been watching your story since you said you had signed with Angel. We get about 3 or 4 hits a month. Lots of online views since we passed the home study. How about you?
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    Oh okay so no one has contacted you yet?  Our profile has only gone out I think 2 times.  Once the home study is approved then we can go up on the website.  I do remember at our initial meeting though Angel said that most birth moms pick couples from the paper version though...found that kind of surprising.  Once we get online I don't know how much I could even pay attention to online views because I would feel like I would not know what views were actually birth moms or what views were just from random people looking at profiles or our friends and family looking.  I go on the site all the time and look at profiles and watch to see people that I remember seeing up on there that are now matched or adopted.  It is fun to see the process and hope that it is us soon!
    7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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  • jenjen930jenjen930 member
    I feel the exact same way. And they told me the same thing. But I figure it can't hurt. We have only been online for a little over a month anyway. We haven't been contacted, but I am encouraged that we are at least being shown. Good luck to you!

    And really. Don't worry about the home visit. It was so easy I laughed at myself for worrying. If LL is your SW she is really laid back and nice. You'll do fine.
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    I feel the exact same way. And they told me the same thing. But I figure it can't hurt. We have only been online for a little over a month anyway. We haven't been contacted, but I am encouraged that we are at least being shown. Good luck to you! And really. Don't worry about the home visit. It was so easy I laughed at myself for worrying. If LL is your SW she is really laid back and nice. You'll do fine.

    I am sure I will be stalking our hits and our profile as soon as it goes up.  How long did it take Angel to put it up online after you were home study approved?

    We have everything done except for the CPR.  My husband has been traveling a lot and we have not been able to make a class.  We are in a class on Feb 14th so I am thinking she can not issue our home study until we are officially done with CPR.  I am just wondering after that, how long it will be until we are up on the Angel site?

    7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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  • jenjen930jenjen930 member
    You're right. You will need the class. But once you do that you should be good. I assume you have had all 4 of the other meetings?

    The SW said we were officially done the night she came over. We were online a few days later. It didn't take very long at all.
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    You're right. You will need the class. But once you do that you should be good. I assume you have had all 4 of the other meetings? The SW said we were officially done the night she came over. We were online a few days later. It didn't take very long at all.

     

    Yep everything else is done..meetings/trainings/physicals/all paperwork.  Just need the CPR class.  So we will probably up on the site by the end of February.  So exciting but scary at the same time because of all the waiting and everything else that can happen with adoption.

    7/18/12-1st RE appointment CD2 blood work taken. Told to move straight to IVF. Starting BC pills and FSH injections plus Lupron. Hopefully doing ET in September Off BCP March 2011 Started TTC July 2011 7 months TTC with no luck an then.... Diagnosed 2/24/12 with 2 Ovarian Cysts. 3/22/12-Lap to remove cysts, look for endo, and see if tubes are clear. 3/22/12-Diagnosed with Severe Endo(tubes are clear). 4/4/12-Post op OBGYN appointment. Told chances of conceiving naturally are very low, but told conceiving in the next few months is our best chance due to being cleaned out during Lap. Referred to a RE. RE said IVF is our only chance to get pregnant. Told only a 20% chance even with two put in. 9/5-Lupron 9/20 Stims(Menopur & Follistim) 9/30 Trigger time 10/2 ER 10/3 fert report-out of 7 eggs retrieved only 2 fertilized. Hello "Thing 1 and Thing 2!" Kinda sad there is none to freeze. Because only 2 we will have 2DT to get them back into a natural envionment 10/4 ET. Found out that only 1 divided. We love you "Thing 2." Thing 1 is now snuggled inside me and we are praying it will be our take home baby! **Did not even make it to my beta, the day before on 10/16/12 I got my F'in period** Such a stab in the heart. Nov 2012-Moving onto domestic newborn adoption! Can't wait for my take home baby. We will try IVF again after 1-2 years of a clear head. Need a break from infertility treatments/issues for my mental sanity! image
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  • Mrs.SlickMrs.Slick member
    We cleaned but it was really nothing out of the ordinary, just did everything that usually happens throughout the month in the two days before she came.

    She was coming over at 6pm so we made dinner asked her first and had a light dessert.

    She almost forgot to do a walk through of the house but that's really all it was. No looking in closets or checking the baseboards for dust like we all fear.

    We did childproof before she came since we were adopting a toddler and we frequently have our nieces and friends kids over so it didn't hurt and we made sure all house safety materials were ready fire extinguisher on each floor, fire escape ladder upstairs, carbon monoxide detectors, etc. Other than that, nothing special.
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  • maryoosamaryoosa member

    We did a huge clean.

    I also bought a new throw rug to help define space, bought a fire extinguisher and another smoke detector, an over the window exit ladder (we live in a 3rd floor with only one exit),  I painted an accent wall, and added a wall decal to my hallway, and bought flowers. 

     

    That's it! 

    Oh and it was all totally unnecessary.

     

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  • Dr.LorettaDr.Loretta member

    We cleaned like we had never cleaned before, LOL!

    I don't think there's anything you need to think about. If they find minor things, you should be able to finish the homestudy with little/no issue. You can always contact the SW and ask what they're looking for, just to be prepared.

    Ours walked through the house, asked about sq footage, # of bedrooms and bathrooms and smoke detectors, looked into each room, and listened in awe as DH showed her the gazillion fire extinguishers and fire escape ladders we had. We sat in our dining room (next to the wine tables full of wine, BTW) and she asked about diversity and the general vibe of our neighborhood and town. The whole thing took maybe 45 minutes.

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