The wait is aggravating

Well the title says it all. We are now into mid-March and this adoption process is still ongoing. Not to say it hasn't been moving along. I just had no idea that it would be this involved. I thought once we had the dossier in place, and got the referral, got him a visa to enter the country, got approval from our government to adopt, got approval from the other government to adopt, that we'd be good to go. But nope. still waiting for more approvals to adopt while our baby has become a toddler. It's really left me full of angst. I feel so helpless. I know these are very formative months/years for babies and I have no idea how much stimulation he's getting right now. Someone said to me (out of love) that this is like a pregnancy. Nope. It's not.