My sister and I visited the welfare agency that worked with the American adoption agency through which we came to the US. Now the Korean agency has an in-house hospital where babies are cared for until they reach a month and then are placed in their adoptive homes or a foster home.
This full-head-of-hair baby was sporting a onesie that I believe all the others were wearing as well…a little “Disney Babies” one. He/she was SO cute wearing the little American cartoon characters!
All throughout the agency was evidence of our two countries’ ties through children…from the volunteers in the nursery helping care for the babies to the photos of adoptive children when in foster care and later when in their adopted American homes. (But just so you know the agency does try to place them with Korean families first, so only about half are sent to the US or Australia)
Not to be redundant, but … HOW CUTE!!!!!
aw that baby is really cute!
Jayna, I’m the one you responded to on the fodors.com thread re: my trip to Korea (to adopt a baby). I wanted to thank you for your response and for the link to your blog, and for this post.
If you visited the same agency we’re working with (SWS), and you were there in the latter part of June 2007, you may very well have seen the baby we’re adopting (we’ll meet and receive him next week!).
It’s a small world, isn’t it?