Online Profile #2 Is Up

It looks great!!! I really like this one a lot. Check it out and see. Most of these pics are in the hardcopy profile as well.

http://adoptionplanners.com/choosefamily3.php?id=328/dusty-&-sara

The designer for this website emailed me to let me know that it was up and running and at the bottom of the email had a PS that said something about as a fellow horsewoman that she loves our profile!

I really, really hope a birthmom agrees!

We also got our hardcopies in the mail yesterday. The one thing about this process that needs to be changed is that 1 single hardcopy needs to be printed in advance and mailed ot us fro us to check over first. It looks different in print than on a computer and there is 1 major change I would have made. In the computer format she had picked a nice rich brown that was still bright and had a wood grain type effect to give it depth. Well, none of that showed up in print. It just looks dark, very, very dark. Almost black dark :( There are only 2 pages with that color as the main color, so it isn't too bad.

If we end up going through all 50 without being chosen (or if it goes over badly and we get negative responses to it) and we need to reprint I will have her make that change. I would do it now except the printing was expensive and I don't think it is bad enough to reprint right now. Our caseworker has them as well and said they looked good.

Our caseworker said that she will give me a call early in the week to talk over how things work. I have a general idea, but she will fill me in on some more specifics. I plan on talking about the profile then and if she thinks the brown is too dark and that it will turn people away we may need to reprint (which adds time and money to an alreadys long and expensive process). I have some questions that have popped up since i originally asked a bunch and will get some answeres then.

A preview of questions:
1. How many new birthmothers do you tend to sign up a month?
2. How many new adoptive paretns do you sign up a month?
3. How many current adoptive parents are waiting? (They placed 150 babies lat year)
4. What is the normal time frame from choosing to birth? (I know that the earliest a birthmother can join the program is at the beginning of the 3rd trimester, but it can be as late as the day before delivery too)

There are some others, but those are the pressing ones.