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Elizabeth
Citizen
Username: Elizabethann
Post Number: 37
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 9:06 am: | 
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My husband and I are interested in getting information about adopting an infant locally and would love to speak with any maplewood/south orange residents with experiece. Please feel free to contact me.Thanks |
wunderdog
Citizen
Username: Wunderdogny
Post Number: 76
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 9:53 am: |
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Hi - I've sent you a private email about our adoption experience. |
MQ42
Citizen
Username: Mq42
Post Number: 96
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 10:18 am: |
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wunderdog,
I'd be interested in any info that you have also. |
amelia
Citizen
Username: Amelia
Post Number: 33
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 10:44 am: |
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Just Babies in Short Hills assists in placement of babies from the child welfare system. PL me for more info beyond their number. Just Babies 973-921-1033. |
Elizabeth
Citizen
Username: Elizabethann
Post Number: 38
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 5:41 pm: |
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The woman at Just Babies was SO wonderful to speak with. She seems like an amazing person. This agency goes through the State system (DYFS) and we are looking into it further.
Amelia-did you adopt through Just Babies? How do you know about them? |
amelia
Citizen
Username: Amelia
Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 9:47 am: |
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Hi Elizabeth, We have a newly place fost-adopt baby from Just Babies, and the people there are really wonderful. They have raised many foster/adoptive children themselves. At this point we do not know if we will be able to adopt our little one, so it is a waiting game sometimes. Just Babies specializes in kids who are pretty much heading toward adoption. But placement is fairly quick as opposed to private adoptions or International adoptions. We were licensed in I'd say Oct-November and had a placement in March. |
ina
Citizen
Username: Ina
Post Number: 317
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 12:29 pm: |
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I also went through Just Babies and now have a beautiful, bright 4 year old daughter to show for it. Feel free to PL me. |
Elizabeth
Citizen
Username: Elizabethann
Post Number: 39
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 2:58 pm: |
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Wow! This is all such great news. I am PLing with lots of questions and everyone is very supportive and encouraging. It seems like Just Babies is a quality agency and that they have a lot of success stories. |
Purplebug
Citizen
Username: Purplebug
Post Number: 129
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 3:22 pm: |
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In what age range are the children? I find that the definition of 'baby' varies with certain agencies. |
ina
Citizen
Username: Ina
Post Number: 320
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 3:50 pm: |
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Just Babies places mostly newborns but generally infants under 1 year. |
blackcat
Citizen
Username: Blackcat
Post Number: 510
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 5:09 pm: |
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Wunderdog,
I'd love a PL also regarding your experiences if you don't mind, that is |
wunderdog
Citizen
Username: Wunderdogny
Post Number: 79
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 17, 2006 - 5:15 pm: |
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Someone sent me a private email, yet the system will not allow me to reply directly, so I'll reply here. Their question was is there a chance the agency would place an infant with you (as temporary fostercare), yet someone ELSE gets to adopt the child in the end.
In dealing with our agency, we were listed as "preadoptive foster parents", which meant we did not want any temporary placements. Therefore, they only considered us for infants who were slated for adoption. Once they placed him with us, from what we understood, there was NOT a chance that they would give him to anyone else to adopt WITH THE EXCEPTION OF BIOLOGICAL FAMILY. The law provides for a waiting period in which the BIOLOGICAL parents/family can change their minds, and in that case, yes he could have been taken away and returned to the biological parents. But once they place a child with a preadoptive parent(s), then they would not ordinarily remove him/her and place him/her with another family. There might be a chance that the biological parents would have some say so in selecting the adoptive parents, but that would depend on the agency and the situation - a good question to ask the agency. That was not an issue in our adoption. |
amelia
Citizen
Username: Amelia
Post Number: 39
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 11:25 am: |
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Hi, I just had a pl request for more information on my just babies experience and I was not able to reply to them. I am not sure what the question is. Overall it is a very thorough agency and simply a pleasure to work with.
Please let me know what your specific question is and how I can pl you with the information. |
Elizabeth
Citizen
Username: Elizabethann
Post Number: 40
Registered: 1-2005
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 - 1:12 pm: |
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Again, thanks for all the amazingly helpful information on fost/adopt. Just Babies has been wonderful and the next training sesssion starts in May. I am hoping that with HUGE jitters and all my husband and I will go for it! Apparently, there are two couples on my block that ALSO adopted through Just Babies along with Amelia and Ina here in the posts. |
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