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Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Parents
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care
English - October 12, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Health & Fitness adoption adopting a baby adoptive parenting foster care foster parent trauma-informed parenting international adoption parenting infant adoption fostering Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are you getting ready to adopt or have just adopted? Do you wonder what the experience will really be like and what you can do to prepare? Join our conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bliss, LCSW and Director of Adoptions and Foster Care at Vista Del Mar and Family Services in Los Angeles; and Molly Berger, MSW and Adoption Social Worker at Adoption Center of Illinois.In this episode, we cover:
Domestic Infant Adoption:
ProcessTypical stresses adoptive parents feelLack of sleepNot deserving to complainFeeling like a babysitterNot feeling love at first siteImpact of infertility struggles on transitioning into parenthoodStresses with parenting a child with neonatal abstinence syndromeStresses with open adoption
Older child adoption through foster care or international adoption:
Change is stressful and adding a child to your family is a huge change regardless of how the child joins the family. What can newly adoptive parents do to prepare in advance and to cope in those first few months?
How has the idea of cocooning impacted stress?
Doc McStuffins, "Baby McStuffins" (Season 3)Sesame Street, "Gina Adopts a Baby"Suggested Book List on Preparing Children for Adoption of a SiblingSuggested Book List on Explaining Adoption To Birth Siblings of Adopted ChildrenCreating a Family resources on Disrupting Birth OrderCreating a Family courses on Combining Kids by Birth and AdoptionThis podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them. Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content:
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Please leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.
Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-informed, expert-based content: