Should I Adopt a Child with Special Needs
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
08/21/13
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Most international adoptions are now special needs adoptions, as are adoptions from US foster care. Are you up to adopting a child with special needs? Host Dawn Davenport interviews Martha Osborne, founder and director of Rainbow Kids, a photolisting website for harder to place children; and Dr. Lisa Nalven, a developmental pediatrician, specializing in caring for children with developmental disabilities. She is the Director of Developmental Pediatrics and the Adoption Screening and Evaluation program at the Kireker Center for Child Development-Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Dr. Nalven also serves on the Executive Committee for the Council on Foster Care, Adoption and Kinship Care for the American Academy of Pediatrics. international adoption, foster care adoption, special needs adoption, adopting from foster care, waiting children, photolistings, adopting from China, adopting from Poland, adopting from Bulgaria, adopting from ColombiaBlog summary of the show and highlights can be found here: Blog summary of the show Highlights More Creating a Family resources on special needs adoption can be found here.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.
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Traveling with Newly Adopted Children
August 14, 2013
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Traveling with kids is hard enough when you know them and they know you. How in the world do you travel with with a newly adopted child. How do you keep a child entertained during the plane, cab, car, bus rides that are inevitable? Join our guests Brooke Randolph, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and founding team member MLJ Adoptions, Inc., where she currently serves as the VP of Social Services. She is a single adoptive mother who has recently traveled with her newly adopted 6 year old son; and Susie Doig, an adoption social worker with Holt International Adoption Agency. adopt child, international adoption, overseas adoption, adopt from abroad, special needs adoption, addoption, foster care adoption, independent adoption, adopt from Ethiopia, Ethiopia adoption, Ukraine adoption, adopting from China, adopting from Korea, adopting from Russia, adopt from Colombia, adopt from Bulgaria, adopt from Poland, infant adoption, child adoption, kids adoption, toddler adoption, adoptable children, older child adoptionBlog summary of the show and highlights can be found here: Blog summary of the show Highlights More Creating a Family resources on traveling with adopted children can be found here.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.
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Should You Freeze Your Eggs to Preserve Your Fertility
August 23, 2013
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Advances in egg freezing in the last couple of years have been huge. Should you use egg freezing to allow you to wait to have children later? Is this technique reliable and safe?How much does it cost, and how expensive is storage? Host Dawn Davenport will interview Dr. Daniel Shapiro, Medical Director of Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta and Clinical Manager of My Egg Bank. He is board-certified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Endocrinology/Infertility. She will also interview Dr. Pat Mc Shane, Associate Director of Fertility Preservation at the University of Colorado Hospital and has served as the President of the New England Fertility Society. Dr. McShane is also the Medical Director of The World Egg Bank.Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here: Blog summary of the show Highlights More Creating a Family resources on egg freezing can be found here.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.
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