http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog I talk about adoption, infertility, adoptive parenting, and plain old parenting. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:51:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The PBS show Point of View aired the documentary "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You) Mommy" by Stephanie Wang-Breal about a New Jersey family adopting an eight year old from China.  I thought the documentary was fascinating and provocative.  I thought the comments and internet chatter about this film were ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoptive-parenting/review-pbs-documentary-wo-ai-ni-love-mommy/ Surely I’m not the only one who occasionally awakes at night to play a round of the What If Game.  This infuriating game is infinitely versatile and can fit any middle of the night musings (or obsessions). Take your pick: What if she never outgrows this problem and is still acting ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/general-parenting/playing-game/ After our show last week on Knowing When It is Time to Move from Infertility Treatment to Adoption, I received an email from Nancy Ferrari-Gallagher saying that so many of the questions sent by listeners struggling with the decision of when and if to call it quits on fertility treatment ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/christophers-mom/ Few words in adoption elicit such strong emotions as the word “photolist”.  Some view this as marketing children as commodities, while others view it as a legitimate technique for finding families for kids.  At Creating a Family, we’ve been struggling with these conflicting views as we try to develop programs ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/photolisting/ Hi all, I know I promised to post during our homeland visit/vacation to Korea and China, but this is honestly the first time I've had a chance. This is our second visit to Korea in three years, so it felt very different for DD#1 and DD#2 and for me. First, ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/homeland-visit-korea/ I think most adoptive parents are on board with the idea that children should be told that they are adopted from a very early age.  We start incorporating the word “adopted” into our vocabulary from the beginning.  We make and read their Life Books to them after their baths as ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoptive-parenting/dont-dont-doesnt-work-adoptive-parenting/ Our show this past week (July  14, 2010) was on what is happening to the children of Haiti six months after the earthquake that devastated that country and killed 230,000 to 300,000, injured approximately 350,000, and left 1.6 million people homeless.  Our guests were Dixie Bickel, with God's Littlest Angels, ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/adopting-haiti-post-earthquake/ When I hear adoption professionals say that you shouldn’t consider adoption unless both partners are 100% on board, I wonder what planet they are living on.  From my interviews with many adopting couples, I have found that in the beginning almost always one partner is more interested in adoption than ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/adoption-domestic-adoption-international-adoption-embryo-adoption-foster-care-adoption/reluctant-spouse-partner-adopt/ I have always been amazed at what we don’t know about the causes and treatments of miscarriages.  It is such a common occurrence and yet remains a bit of a medical mystery.  Recurrent pregnancy loss is devastating to the couples involved and hearing that the cause or the preferred treatment ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/infertility-fertility-trying-to-conceive-ivf-donor-egg/miscarriagerecurrent-pregnancy-loss/ I interviewed the lead researcher of an interesting study on pregnancy outcomes for woman with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.  This study has not yet been published.  This study stands out because of it’s size (3,700 woman with PCOS) and the inclusion of woman with mild and moderate PCOS.  Past studies have ... http://www.creatingafamily.org/blog/infertility-fertility-trying-to-conceive-ivf-donor-egg/pregnancy-outcomes-woman-pcos/