Wendy, EAC Special Focus referral

Wendy is a 2 1/2 year old girl who has a heart murmur and possibly Down's Syndrome. Her medical is from when she was 1 1/2 years old. At that time she could walk, scribble with a pen, go up stairs, draw vertical lines, screw a cap, turn pages of a book, imitate talking, understand "no" and knew cold, tired and hungry.

She enjoys listening to music and playing outside. Her favorite toys are dolls. She like to imitate people and play games.

An EAC family update

A beautiful story about a beautiful little girl!

I just wanted to share some good news that we recently experienced... We adopted our daughter, Hattie, from China with EAC in Feb./March 2009. She was a part of the Special Needs program and had cleft lip/palate repaired. We knew going in that she would need additional surgeries.  She had the first of her surgeries this past Wednesday and things could not have gone better or been more orchestrated by God himself.

 A fissure had formed in the roof of her mouth along the first suture line in her palate and she needed a repair/realignment of the muscle in the soft palate. The doctor was not sure if he would be able to repair either of these because he did not know what had been done in China. Well, once he was able to get in there he found that it wasn't really a fissure that had formed, it was that her palate was never properly closed....now you're thinking this is a bad thing??  In one sense it was, she has had some leakage from her mouth to her nasal passage because of this, but the good part of it was that he had to do much less cutting and repairing because it was never closed. Then he had to realign the muscle in the soft palate that closes off your nasal passage when you swallow and makes certain areas of speech possible. His concern was that normally in foreign countries they just sew the muscle together straight, but a normally formed muscle in its resting position is in "V". In order for him to do it properly he would also need plenty of flesh and other muscle from the back of her throat. Well once he moved on to that area, and got to the muscle, he found it hadn't been sewn together at all. There wouldn't need to be as much repair. He was able to just realign the muscle. Her palate is now noticeably longer and her Dad and I already see some changes in her speech just 3 days later.

 

This was as scary a thing as I've ever experienced, but I do know that He has a wonderful and great plan for each of us. We were able to come home after just 1 night in the hospital, versus 3 that they thought we would be staying. This little girl has blessed so many people and we were even able to share our story with her recovery room nurse who is considering adoption with her husband. We were thrilled to tell her our experience with EAC and how y'all have blessed our lives with 3 great kids. (one adoption from Russia in '06, 2 siblings, one from China)

I just wanted to share this amazing story with everyone there....I feel like we never can hear too much good news!

Sincerely,

Traci, Harris & Hattie

Happy Chinese New Year

Happy Chinese New Year

The dragon is the mightiest of the zodiac signs. Dragons are hardworking, natural born leaders.

This dragon was e-mailed to us by a family that accepted referral last week.

Best Wishes for a Happy New Year

Zhou, Chris & Karla

Please help Alison find a home

Alison is an active 8 year old girl with a speech delay. She likes to be praised by adults. At 5 years old, she was active at things she enjoyed and she would neglect activities she didn't like. At six years old she had a very good imagination but her memory wasn't as good. Now at 8 years old, she understands everything and will help the caregivers when asked.

Eric needs a home

Eric will be turning 8 yrs old in May. He has nerve deafness in both ears. He is in foster care and attends school with deaf classes. He's a typical 7 year old boy who likes to play games at school and study with kids. After school he likes to watch cartoons and play on the playground.

Eric is a Special Focus Individual Referral for European Adoption Consultants, Inc.
Please contact European Adoption Consultants, Inc. if you would like more information on Eric.

We would like to help him find his forever family.

Non Special Needs Update

CCCWA has released referrals of non special needs children through 8/15/06 LID. Families waiting for referral of an infant that is as healthy as possible currently have about a 6 year wait.

We have our forever family

We were in the same orphanage. Now we are brothers. Our forever family is bringing us home later this week. Our parent's dossier was logged in May 2011.

Families interested in adopting two children from China can adopt a special needs child and a special focus child. CCCWA defines special needs as minor correctable conditions. Special focus children have more complicated conditions or are older. There are many boys on CCCWA's waiting child data base. Families should discuss medical conditions with an international adoption specialist of their choice. Every family's definition of minor and correctable is different. European Adoption Consultants, Inc.'s China Department will help families find the referral that most closely matches their request.