Unexpected Stresses on Newly Adoptive Parents
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
10/12/22
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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:
- Process
- Typical stresses adoptive parents feel
- Lack of sleep
- Not deserving to complain
- Feeling like a babysitter
- Not feeling love at first site
- Impact of infertility struggles on transitioning into parenthood
- Stresses with parenting a child with neonatal abstinence syndrome
- Stresses with open adoption
Older child adoption through foster care or international adoption:
- Process
- Typical stresses adoptive parents feel
- Unrealistic expectations of the child and of yourself
- Love at first site
- Feeling like a babysitter
- Language issues
- Cultural issues
- Parental attachment styles-How the way we were parented influences how we parent.
- Challenging behaviors
- Sibling issues
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 Sibling
- Suggested Book List on Explaining Adoption To Birth Siblings of Adopted Children
- Creating a Family resources on Disrupting Birth Order
- Creating a Family courses on Combining Kids by Birth and Adoption
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- Resource pages on all aspects of family building
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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IVF from the Male Partner's Perspective
October 5, 2022
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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 and his wife Olivia went through two rounds of IVF and suffered two miscarriages before welcoming their daughter.
In this episode, we cover:
- Tell us your story to parenthood.
- The imagined role of the male partner: strong, supportive, and not needing support.
- Media messages about men that impact how they can respond to infertility: men take action to fix problems, showing emotion makes you weak, real men don’t ask for or need help, real men are virile, being a father is part of what makes you a man.
- What are some things that you learned that the male partner can do to improve the quality or quantity of sperm.
- What are some common emotions men or those supporting a person trying to get pregnant might feel when they start infertility treatment: anger; embarrassment; jealousy; fear that is won’t work; worry (over costs, impact of the treatment on their partner and their relationship), feeling less manly.
- How can the supporting partner take care of themselves during treatment?
- The partner’s role in giving the shots. What are some common feelings they experience?
- Tips for staying connected with your partner through the stress of fertility treatment.
- Dealing with miscarriage yourself while supporting your partner.
- The role of infertility nurses. You wanted to nominate your infertility nurse for sainthood. What did she do that made the stressful experience of infertility and its treatment more bearable for you as the male partner.
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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Introduction to International Adoption
October 19, 2022
•54m
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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 international adoption field for 27 years and Debbie Price, Executive Director of Children’s House International and who has worked in international adoption for 28 years.
In this episode, we cover:
- Outline of the typical international adoption process.
- What type of kids are available for international adoption?
- What is the youngest child available?
- Is it possible to get a young healthy child or baby?
- International adoption regulations.
- What governmental entities are involved in international adoption?
- How to decide on what country to adopt from? Will the country accept you? Does the country place children that you think your family is a good fit for?
- What are some of the country-specific requirements for adoptive parents?
- Can adoption agencies have different or more stringent requirements than the foreign or US government?
- What are the health risks for children adopted internationally? What type of special needs do children have?
- What type of care do children have before adoption? Institutional vs foster care.
- How to find children abroad who are waiting for adoption? How to adopt a child on a waiting child website?
- How much information will you have on the health of the child when you receive a referral?
- How big of a risk is it that a country will close down to international adoption once you apply? How do you mitigate the risk of losing the money you invested?
- What to look for in an international adoption agency?
- Pre-adoption education requirements.
- How much does international adoption cost?
- Are grants available?
- What is the Adoption Tax Credit and can it be used for an international adoption?
- How long does it take to adopt internationally?
- Is it possible for single women, gays, lesbians, or other members of the LGBTQ+ community to adopt internationally?
- Importance of post-adoption reporting.
- How do internationally adopted children acquire US citizenship?
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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