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Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
04/13/22
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Is your child "more"...more intense, more defiant, more everything and in general, just harder to parent? We talk with Dr. Chuck Geddes, the founder of Complex Trauma Resources where he developed the Complex Care and Intervention (CCI) program to support foster and adoptive children. He is the author of Children and Complex Trauma: A Roadmap for Healing and Recovery.
In this episode, we cover:
- What makes a child harder to parent?
- The importance of recognizing what we parents bring to the relationship.
- Difference between trauma and complex trauma.
- Tantrums, meltdowns, or hissy fits are a common part of child development, but some kids have them more than others and they are more intense. What factors contribute to some children being more susceptible to tantrums?
- At what age in normal child development are tantrums most common?
- How does trauma change the dynamic with tantrums?
- Techniques for preventing tantrums.
- Techniques for handling tantrums.
- Need for constant supervision
- Lying
- Being disrespectful
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:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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Genetics, Genetic Testing, and Miscarriage
April 6, 2022
•53m
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Have you experienced a miscarriage? What type of genetic tests should you consider to prevent another miscarriage? We will talk about Genetics, Genetic Testing, and Miscarriage with Kim Skellington, a laboratory genetic counselor with CooperGenomics providing pre-test and post-test counseling to patients regarding genetic testing, and Dr. Rachel Gerber, a board-certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility Specialist with RMA NY.
In this episode, we cover:
- What causes a woman to miscarry a pregnancy?
- How common is miscarriage?
- What is considered Recurrent Pregnancy Loss (RPL)?
- How common is recurrent pregnancy loss?
- Basic introduction to DNA, genes, and chromosomes.
- Genetic Testing of Products of Conception
- What can go wrong with the genes of a fetus that would likely result in a miscarriage?
- What genetic tests on the products of conception are available after a miscarriage to determine the cause?
- At what point does a doctor consider genetic testing of the products of conception to determine the cause of the miscarriage? After the first miscarriage? Second? Third? How does a woman’s age impact this decision?
- How are the products of conception tested? What are patients told to do?
- Genetic Testing of Embryo
- What is preimplantation genetic testing?
- Distinction between PGT-A, PGT-M, PGT-SR?
- Is PGT effective at preventing miscarriage? What does the research currently show?
- Are mosaic embryos more likely to miscarry?
- Genetic Testing of Parents
- What parental chromosomal abnormalities can cause a miscarriage?
- What is a chromosomal translocations and can that cause a miscarriage?
- Is there a gene or genes that has been found that makes it more likely that a woman will miscarry a pregnancy of a chromosomally normal fetus?
- If a woman’s mother had multiple miscarriages, is she likely to have miscarriages?
- Can these genetic anomalies by found by Parental karyotyping?
- What is the prognosis for women trying to get pregnant after having had recurrent miscarriages?
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:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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First Six Months with a Baby with Opioid Exposure
April 18, 2022
•44m
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Are you considering adopting or fostering a baby who was exposed to opioids prenatally? We talk with Dr. Robin Gurwitch, a faculty member in the Duke University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Center for Child and Family Health. Her research focuses on improving the outcomes and increasing resilience in children who have experienced trauma, including prenatal exposure.
In this episode, we cover:
- What drugs are included in the category of opioids?
- Opioids are a class of drugs that include the illegal drug heroin, synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, and pain relievers available legally by prescription, such as oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, morphine, and many others.
- Methadone and suboxone?
- How does prenatal exposure to opioids affect a fetus?
- How can you tell if the baby is born dependent on opioids?
- What are the symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)?
- How common is testing of the newborn or mother?
- What impacts the severity of the withdrawal symptoms an infant might experience?
- timing of the mother’s most recent intake of opioid
- maternal metabolism
- placental metabolism
- infant metabolism and excretion
- maternal taking of other substances, including cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine, hypnotics sedatives, and/or barbiturates
- How is NAS treated in the hospital?
- What can parents expect at the hospital when a baby is born dependent or was exposed prenatally?
- What can parents expect when they first bring the baby home?
- How can parents help soothe a baby going through withdrawal?
- How can parents help a baby going through withdrawal with sucking?
- What can parents do to help their baby exposed to opioids sleep through the night?
- Any additional tips for dealing with and helping a baby who was exposed to opioids?
- Long term impacts.
- Does being born dependent predict the degree the child might be impacted?
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:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
Please leave us a rating or review RateThisPodcast.com/creatingafamily
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:
- Weekly podcasts
- Weekly articles/blog posts
- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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