Practical Tips for Welcoming an Older Foster or Kinship Child or Youth - Weekend Wisdom
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
08/06/23
•7m
About
Comments
Transcript
Featured In
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks!
This is a perennial question that is often asked: Help, I have an older child moving in. How do I make them comfortable and make the transition as easy as possible for us all? We offer 3 tips to help you welcome a new young person into your home.
- 6 Parenting Tips for Older Child Adoption
- Suggested Books on Older Child Adoption for Adoptive Parents
- Welcoming a New Foster Child
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
Previous Episode
Basic Baby Care
August 2, 2023
•62m
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks!
Are you expecting the placement of a newborn? Don't miss our conversation about the latest information on baby care with Kristen O’Dell, a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner with almost two decades of working with over 10,000 newborns and their families in her hospital practice of Neonatology and Newborn Medicine.
In this episode, we cover:
- Feeding
- The vast majority of adoptive parents will bottle-feed their baby. How to choose a formula.
- Is liquid or dry formula better for the baby?
- How to sterilize the dry formula?
- Do you need to sterilize bottles?
- What type of bottle is best?
- Does the bottle type differ if the baby is born premature or has Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome?
- Does the temperature of the formula matter?
- Can you make the bottles up once a day, or do you have to make it fresh for each feeding?
- When should you consider a specialized formula, and what options do you have?
- How often should a baby eat?
- Other feeding options: adoptive mother induce lactation to breastfeed; donated breast milk.
- How do you know if your baby is getting enough food?
- If your baby spits up a lot, when should you worry that they aren’t getting enough food?
- When to introduce solid food?
- Sleep
- What is a typical wake/sleep pattern for a newborn?
- When should you expect your baby to sleep for 5-6 hours?
- Is the wake/sleep cycle affected by prematurity or Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS)?
- At what point can you start trying to get your baby to not wake up many times for a feeding at night?
- Will introducing solid food, even if watered down, help your baby sleep through the night?
- How can you establish healthy sleeping habits for your baby?
- When do most babies start sleeping through the night and what is “sleeping through the night”—how much sleep?
- Safe sleep practices: sleeping on the back, no pillows, blankets, bumpers, stuffed animals
- Sleep training
- Poop
- How often should babies poop? What is normal?
- What does the typical healthy newborn baby poop look like?
- How do you know if there is a problem?
- How can you tell if your baby is constipated? And what should you do?
- What type of diaper is best?
- What type of baby wipes are best?
- How to treat diaper rash?
- How can you tell if your baby has a yeast diaper rash?
- What is colic?
- How do you treat colic?
- What is the current thinking on circumcision?
- Tips for new parents.
Free Resource Guide from New Mommy Guru
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
Next Episode
Introduction to Prenatal Substance Exposure
August 9, 2023
•58m
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks!
Are you considering adopting or fostering? Or taking in a relative's child? Do you suspect or know that the birth mom used drugs or alcohol during pregnancy? Join us today to learn how these substances might impact the child and how you parent. Our guest is Dr. Lisa Prock, a Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrician, Director of the Developmental Medicine Center at Children’s Hospital, Boston, and Clinical Director of the Translational Neuroscience Center at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston. She is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
In this episode, we cover:
- Foster, adoptive, and kinship parents and caregivers often need to consider whether they are the right family to parent a child with prenatal alcohol and drug exposure.
- The US government estimates that about 10% of children born in the US have been prenatally exposed to alcohol, drugs, or both. How common is prenatal substance exposure for foster and adoptive children, as well as those kids living with grandparents and other relatives?
- Are there signs or symptoms with a child that may have been exposed to alcohol and drugs in utero, absent confirmation from the mother?
- What is known about the amount or timing of alcohol or drug use and the impact on the baby or child?
- Short-term and long-term impacts of the following substances:
- Alcohol-does it matter the type of alcohol?
- Methamphetamines
- Adderall, Concerta, Ritalin or other ADHD medication
- Opiates/opioids-prescription
- Opioids-illegal
- Heroin
- Fentanyl
- Methadone, Suboxone, Subutex, Buprenorphine
- Marijuana
- Ecstasy, inhalants
- Tobacco-smoking cigarettes or vaping
- How common is dual exposure/polysubstance exposure—alcohol and drugs?
- Do children who have been prenatally exposed to alcohol or drugs have a greater risk of abusing drugs in adolescence or adulthood?
- How do you get a child diagnosed with prenatal substance exposure?
- What should parents consider when trying to decide if they are the right family for a child with prenatal exposure?
- Creating a Family’s Prenatal Substance Exposure Trainings for Parents, Daycare/Preschool Teachers, and Afterschool Staff.
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
If you like this episode you’ll love
Promoted