{"id":216,"date":"2007-12-08T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T01:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2013-12-02T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T02:46:23","slug":"finding-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/216","title":{"rendered":"Finding Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, we received Lainey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finding ad. When a child is found in China, an ad is placed with the child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photo and identifying information. They do this in case the parents want to claim their child, though I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever heard of this happening. We acquired this information from a man named Brian Stuy, of\u00c2\u00a0www.research-china.org\/index.htm<\/a>. He and his wife have 3 girls adopted from China. He finds the ads and offers them to adoptive parents, believing that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vitally important to have this earliest link to our children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pasts. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so grateful to have this picture of Lainey, at approximately 3 days old, as well as a little more information about her beginnings.<\/p>\n

The paper contains a picture of Lainey before her lip repair. It appears to be a unilateral cleft, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a little hard to tell for sure. She looks so young and quite sleepy :)<\/p>\n

In addition to the enlarged photo that Brian made, he also sent us the whole paper that her ad was in. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s called the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Anhui Youth Daily\u00e2\u20ac\u009d paper and only about 5 pages in length. Here is a closeup of the ad page. Lainey is 2nd from the left, on the bottom row. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure how often this paper is produced\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6there are 12 abandoned children in this one.<\/p>\n

Brian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife, Lan, is Chinese and translates the ads. Lainey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ad says this:<\/p>\n

An abandoned baby<\/p>\n

A girl<\/p>\n

We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what her name was<\/p>\n

She still had her umbilical cord on. We estimated she was about 3 days old.<\/p>\n

She has small eyes.<\/p>\n

She has a cleft palate and lip, thick hair, slightly yellow skin.<\/p>\n

On July 7th, 2006, she was found on Nanhu Road, Bengbu City.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I would love to know a more specific spot for her finding place, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible that the orphanage will be able to tell us more. To think of her being left beside a road is difficult to understand\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I imagine that there must be a very safe, yet obvious place on that road, where her birth mother felt she would be found quicky and taken care of. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be forever grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, we received Lainey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finding ad. When a child is found in China, an ad is placed with the child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photo and identifying information. They do this in case the parents want to claim their child, though I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve ever heard of this happening. We acquired this information from a man named Brian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}