Latest Infant adoption Podcast Episodes
How to Raise an Intense Child
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - February 15, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you have a child that is more—louder, more energetic, more argumentative, more everything? Intense children can be harder to raise, but their intensity is a gift as well as a parenting challenge. We talk with Howard Glasser, creator of the...
Impact of Fostering and Adoption on Kids Already in the Family
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - February 08, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you worry that your decision to foster or adopt will hurt the kids you are already raising? Check out this podcast with Dr. Jana Hunsley, an Assistant Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Dallas, trauma therapist, TBRI® P...
Identical Twins Separated at Birth
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - February 01, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What happens when identical twins born in Vietnam are separated by adoption, with one adopted by a US family and one adopted by a Vietnamese family? Join us to talk with Erika Hayasaki, a journalist and author of Somewhere Sisters: A Story of...
Picky Eating and Other Food Issues
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 25, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have mealtimes become a battleground in your house, is your child a picky eater, or do you have a child who eats too much? We provide lots of tips in our conversations with Dr. Katja Rowell, a family doctor and author of Love Me, Feed Me, 2nd...
2022 Adoption Tax Credit
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 18, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you planning on claiming the Adoption Tax Credit when you file your taxes this year? If so, this is the podcast for you! We talk with two of the top experts in the US on the Adoption Tax Credit: Becky Wilmoth, an Enrolled Agent and Adopti...
How to Adopt in 2023
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 11, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you thinking about adopting this year? You don't want to miss this discussion of how to adopt and current trends in private infant adoption, foster care adoption, and international adoption. Our guests are Chris Peszka, MSW, Regional and ...
Making Peace with Living Child Free
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - January 04, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do you know when enough is enough? What do you do when infertility treatment and adoption don't end up with you having a child. Join us to talk with Rebecca and Sallyann Majoya, co-authors of the memoir Uncertain Fruit, and Carole LieberW...
Parental Leave: What You Need to Know Before You Adopt or Foster
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 28, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are adoptive parents eligible for parental leave? What about foster parents or kinship parents? We talk with Dr. Amy Beacom and Sue Campbell, with the Center for Parental Leave Leadership and co-authors of The Parental Leave Playbook. In thi...
Transracial Adoption: A Mom & Son Talk About What They've Learned
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 21, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk with Isaac and Julie Etter, a mom and son, about what they have learned about transracial adoption and what they wish they had known at the beginning. Isaac is the founder of Identity, a startup focused on using technology to help ado...
Courage & Resilience: A Foster Child's Story of Success
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 14, 2022 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How do some kids survive a life of poverty, homelessness, abuse, and foster and eventually thrive? We talk with David Ambroz is a national poverty and child welfare expert and advocate and the author of the memoir, A Place Called Home. He wa...
An Introduction to Female Fertility
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - December 07, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How much do you really know about your fertility, menstrual cycles, and conception? Join us to learn more with Dr. Joyce Harper, a Professor of Reproductive Science at the Institute for Women’s Health, University College London, and the head ...
Understanding Psychotropic Medications
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - November 30, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you a foster or adoptive parent whose child is taking mood altering medications or medications to help them sleep? You will learn a lot about these medications and what you can do to make them as effective as possible. We talk with Dr. Ad...
Prenatal Exposure: Diagnosing and Treatment
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - November 23, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you wonder if your child was prenatally exposed to alcohol or drugs? There may be nothing in the files, but something feels not right? We talk about diagnosing and treating these kids with Dr. Larry Burd, a professor of pediatrics at the U...
Transracial Adoption and Fostering: Understanding Race & Racial Identity
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - November 16, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you a transracial adoptive or foster parent? Have you wondered how you can help your child form a healthy racial identity. Does racial identity formation change depending on the race of the child? Today we talk about all this and more wit...
Physical and Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - November 09, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What are the common health issues foster parents and those adopting from foster care should expect? We talk with Christy Street, Program Director of Fostering Health NC, which is a program of North Carolina Pediatric Society. In this episode...
Current Trends in 3rd Party Reproduction
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - November 02, 2022 06:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you thinking about using donor sperm, egg, or embryo or using a surrogate? We talk about the current trends in third party reproduction with Corey Burke, an embryologist and Tissue Bank Director at Cryos International Sperm & Egg Bank. I...
Collaborative Parenting
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - October 26, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Is your child more challenging than most? Do typical parenting approaches not work? We talk about how to parent harder-to- parent kids with Dr. Ross Greene, the originator of the Collaborative & Proactive Solutions parenting model, a non-puni...
Introduction to International Adoption
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - October 19, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you ever thought about adopting a child from abroad? What does it take and what type of kids are available? To learn more, listen to our interview with Robin Sizemore, Executive Director of Hopscotch Adoptions, who has worked in the inte...
Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Parents
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - October 12, 2022 06:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. 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 ...
IVF from the Male Partner's Perspective
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - October 05, 2022 06:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. What's IVF like for the male partner? We spend a lot of time talking about the experience of infertility treatment for the person going through treatment, but what about their partner? We talk with Keegan Prue, the author of "The IVF Dad." He...
Finding an Adoption and Foster Competent Therapist
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - September 28, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Do you think your child or your family would benefit from counseling? How do you find the right therapist and how can you tell in advance if they will be a good fit for your family? We talk with Debbie Riley, a Licensed Clinical Marriage and ...
Introduction to Foster Parenting
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - September 21, 2022 06:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Have you ever thought about becoming a foster parent? If so, this is the podcast for you! We talk with Arnie Eby, the Executive Director of the National Foster Parent Association and a foster parent for 22 years; and Angie Jones, a licensed c...
Therapeutic Parenting: Strategies and Solutions
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - September 14, 2022 06:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk today with Sarah Naish, the CEO of the Center of Excellence in Child Trauma and founder of the National Association of Therapeutic Parents. She is the author of "The A-Z of Therapeutic Parenting" and "The A-Z of Survival Strategies fo...
When to Consider Sperm or Egg Donation
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - September 07, 2022 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Are you considering donor egg or sperm? When should you consider these options? What choices do you have and what are some of the psychological hurdles you need to consider? We talk with Dr. Angela Leung, a reproductive endocrinologist at Rep...
Transracial Adoption from the Eyes of Adoptee, Birth Mom, and Adoptive Mom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - August 31, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. Transracial adoption affects all parts of the adoption triad. We will talk today with a transracial adoptee and his birth mom and adopted mom. We will include tips for adoptive parents raising transracially adopted or fostered child. In this...
Trauma and Transracial Adoption
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - August 24, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk today with Dr. Gina Samuels about Trauma and Transracial Adoption. Dr. Samuels is an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration and In-Coming Director at the Center for the Study of Race...
Adoptions in the US: Who is Adopting and How are the Kids Doing?
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - August 17, 2022 06:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk with Ryan Hanlon, with National Council for Adoption, about the largest survey of adoptive parents ever conducted. We talk about who adoptive parents are, the needs of the kids adopted, and so much more. In the episode, we cover: W...
Epigenetics in Fertility and Infertility Treatment
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - August 10, 2022 06:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. How can epigenetic changes affect your fertility or the health of your child conceived by fertility treatment? We talk with Dr. Jason Franasiak, a board certified Obstetrician Gynecologist, board certified Reproductive Endocrinology and Infer...
Helping Our Kids Overcome a Traumatic Background
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - August 03, 2022 06:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We know our kids have experienced trauma, but how can we help them overcome this trauma to become healthy happy adults. We talk about resilience and overcoming an adverse beginning with Dr. Julian Ford and Dr. Amanda Zelechoski. Dr. Ford is a...
Surviving Childhood Trauma and Succeeding in Life: Panel of Former Foster Youth
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption & Foster Care - July 27, 2022 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 180 ratingsSend us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom. We talk with a panel of former foster youth about their stories and what helped them survive their trauma and succeed in life. In this episode, we cover: What were the two most important things in helping you heal and ultimately thrive afte...
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