At 10.50am this morning we arrived at the Jiangxi Provincial Adoption Centre. The four babies in our group are from two separate orphanages, two babies were already there – not Izzy. So 11am came and went, our guide rang the orphanage – stuck in traffic! Izzy arrived at approximately 11.20am.
She was extremely distressed when she was handed to me and took quite some time to settle. For the last few hours we have had constant crying with moments of calmness, then crying again. She let me give her a bottle but didn’t want food until about an hour ago when she discovered biscuits were quite good.
This afternoon we went back to the Adoption Centre to finalise paperwork – two interviews, taking a red foot print of Izzy for her adoption paperwork, red thumb prints of Peter and I. We then went the Notary Public and had another interview and have just come back to the hotel. Izzy is now officially ours. She fell asleep in the bus on the way back and I’ve just put her in the cot. She will most probably be distraught again when she wakes up and realises it isn’t all a bad dream!
Her foster mother has been calling her Qin Qin (chin chin) so we will call her Izzy Chin Chin.
Will load up lots of photos now.
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