Our next step

The paperwork is finally complete and we are ready to go get our sweet girl and make her a forever member of our family.  Our next step will be to help her bond to our family and help her realize that we are something more than another caregiver that comes for 8 hours a day.  We have been blessed to be working with an International Adoption Doctor that has given us many good ideas and suggestions that have worked for other families.  Unfortunately our Sweet Girl has no concept of parents and family other than the caregivers that she will soon be leaving.  One main suggestion that our International Adoption Dr has given us is that Chad and I, with the help of her brothers, do all of Josie's care, affection and holding for a while.  This will be hard as we know there are many family members and friends that are anxiously waiting to meet and love our sweet girl. The importance of this is that she has never had parents show her all the affection and love the biological children normally get.  If we play the "pass the baby game" she will be much more likely to look toward others in the future, even strangers for the affection that normally comes from parents.  We are told that the first few months when she is going thru the loss of everything familiar to her will be a critical time to form a bond that normally forms at birth.  She is a very sweet girl and we know the bonds will come with time, and when it does we will be anxious to share her with family and friends.