In this episode, Mr and Mrs M discuss how they felt and what happened when they first met their Stage 2 social worker. 

They discuss their first 3 home assessment visits which were: 

• Visit 1: Initial Home Visit
• Visit 2: Relationships, Support Network & Identity
• Visit 3: One-To-One Meetings

Also, they share the date of their Approval Panel...so get excited!! 

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In this episode, Mr and Mrs M describe two of the training/support events put on by their local authority for prospective adopters. They also share their journey and reason to adopt and answer their first ever listener question! 

Lite Bite Book Club videos: 
Drowning in Empathy: The Cost of Vicarious Trauma | Amy Cunningham | TEDxSanAntonio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsaorjIo1Yc 

SECONDARY TRAUMA l The difficult parts of adoption l Post placement l UK ADOPTION l mollymamaadopt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feGbVQ6HmUc 

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In this episode, Mr and Mrs M explain what the Stage 1 Review meeting was like and how they started to share their exciting news more widely with family and friends. 

In the episode, Mr M mentions a helpful episode of The Adoption Shared Podcast about executive functions which you can find here: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/adoption-shared/id1589808211?i=1000562382965 

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Mr and Mrs M share their experience of Adoption Preparation Training (days 1 and 2) and Early Permanence Training. 

The video that Mr M refers to can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8j4XRxSck 

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In this episode, Mr and Mrs M give you a run through of all the forms and checks that they needed to complete during Stage 1. They also share some of the content from Workbooks 1 and 2 which form the basis of the Stage 1 Report and Prospective Adopters Report further down the line. 

Plus, some good news! 

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We hear Mr and Mrs M's reflections on 'Foundation Day', the final part of the pre-stage process before formally submitting an "Expression of Interest" to adopt. 

**Disclaimer** - this episode goes into a lot of detail about what we learned on Foundation Day... future episodes will be more concise, we promise! 

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In this episode, Mr and Mrs M discuss their journey to making the decision to go for adoption rather than other more traditional routes to starting a family. 

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In this episode, we introduce Mr and Mrs M and the reason for starting a podcast (despite being total novices!) 

We hope that you enjoy joining our journey through the adoption process in the UK. 

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