Response to questions

RoseMary thank you for your questions about the
children at the Baby House.

The children have a few things that are theirs while
they are at the Baby House but these are not things
that they leave with. For instance Mia had bed #7.
She also shared a locker with a duck on the door which
held the jacket, hat and shoes she would wear outside.
These items were shared with two or three other girls
in the group. Mia had no toys or special clothes that
she would call her own. When she left she did not
take any items with her. We brought the clothes that
she left the Baby House in. I know it is hard to
imagine.

The children have hope that at some point they will
have mamaandpapa. I write the words together because
it seems to be more of a single concept. Tucker has
often confused mama and papa perhaps this is why. I
am not sure how early on Bacha learned of our coming.
It may have been the day we arrived. There is not a
lot of time between paperwork being approved and would
be parents or parent (single woman can adopt from
kazakhstan) arrive. The children that are being
adopted get very excited and in Bacha's case she
showed us off to everyone in the baby house.

In talking to our interpreter and the director it was
said that children at the baby house do feel at some
point they will be adopted. Children live at the Baby
House from newborn through 4, at age 5 they move on to
another facility. It is then that there is not the
same hope for adoption.

Bacha has not attached herself to anything I have
brought along. I don't expect this to happen for
awhile. I bought a Kazak doll on our last trip here
but didn't bring it. I will look for others while we
are in Almaty - thank you for mentioning it.
Linda

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