Launching a Baby’s Adoption

Practical Strategies for Parents and Professionals

Getting ready to adopt a baby under a year of age takes physical, emotional, financial,and practical preparation just as being pregnant does! This resource provides practical strategies for making choices about names, child care, breast vs bottlefeeding, etc; promoting attachment through the senses (taste, touch, smell, sight,etc.) as well as through routine; adjustments between parenting partners; dealing with post arrival blues; bringing family and friends on board; dealing with a birthparent’s change of heart, figuring out what’s an adoption issue and what’s not, and more.The author of the award-winning Adopting after Infertility, Pat Johnston, takes readers to the next step in this important resource.

New and Notable on another front… Launching a Baby’s Adoption’s author, Pat Johnston, served as the adoption coordinator and consultant on Healthvue’s new DVD set �Infertility Explained: The Complete, Authoritative Guide to Everything You Need to Know on Your Journey to Parenthood� as a two-disc DVD production providing an authoritative resource for over six-million clinically infertile couples of child-bearing age in the United States, helping them to make informed choices and achieve greater confidence in their decisions made in consultation with healthcare practitioners. to learn more about this audo-visual resource Click here

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