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How to get a new baby/toddler to nap
I have been writing about “mother hunger” in my last couple of posts, and how newly adopted children often have very intense needs for love, attention and physical contact from their new parents. I...
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Lessons Learned – Be the Parent
As I have been writing about and thinking about “new additions” a lot lately, I thought that I would share some of our experiences and some of the lessons we have learned with bringing home our new...
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Lessons Learned – Change diet slowly
One of the lessons that Josh and I learned the hard way came with our second adoption, little Amanda from Korea. Amanda came home from Korea at almost two years of age, and she was escorted to us, so...
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Lessons Learned – Learn some words
Another important lesson that Josh and I have learned through our adoptions is that communication is super important. If your transracial adoption is an international adoption (as many are) and...
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Lessons Learned – Food is important
Another lesson that Josh and I have learned through our adoptions is how important food can be to a child. We often talk about “comfort food”, and how eating something that we enjoy and that is...
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Lessons Learned – Be flexible
I have been writing about lessons that Josh and I have learned about parenting newly adopted children throughout our adoptions. We have brought home seven kids through transracial adoption and are...
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Who’s the New Girl?
Hi! I’m Robyn, mom to Jack via private, domestic, US adoption. I’m happy to be making my Adoption Blogs debut! I chose adoption as a way to build a family when I was 13. At that time, Ceauşescu had...
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Real Family
Last weekend, a few women and I hosted a couples baby shower to celebrate the imminent arrival of our friends’ fourth child. Their soon-to-be daughter was born in Ethiopia and still waits in the...
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Celebrity Adoptions: Changing Perceptions about What Family Looks Like
What does family look like? To some, “family” is exclusively a matchie-matchie bunch, like those “Dick and Jane” readers right out of the 1950s. Dad in his pleated khakis looking responsible. Mom in...
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The Preference Box: Top 3 Reasons That Box Gets Checked
The worst part of the adoption process for me, besides waiting for “the call,” was the checklist our agency required us to fill out. Categories were to be marked with a yes, no, or would consider....
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