Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care

For years parents have followed the Beyond Consequences: A Love Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors to help their children at home. But how can this approach be used in the school setting. Our guest is Heather Forbes,  co-founder of the Beyond Consequences Institute, author of Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-based Approach for Helping Children With Severe Behaviors, and mom to two children adopted as toddlers from Russia.

The diagnosis of cancer is terrifying. Amidst all the chaos, you need to think of your future fertility. Will you be left infertile? is there something you can do to perserve your option to get pregnant and have a biological child? Is it safe? What should you do? How to afford it? Our guests are Dr. Tessa Cigler, an oncologist at Cornell Medical Center and a Board member and Executive Committee member of the Alliance for Fertility Preservation. We also have Alice Crisci, founder of Fertile Action, a nonprofit with the mission of ensuring that fertile women touched by cancer have the option to preserve their fertility prior to treatment, cancer survivor, and author of Too Young for This. Cancer, Breast cancer, fertility, infertility, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, getting pregnant after cancer.

Many patients at some point decide that it is time to consider other options other than fertility treatment. The transition from treatment to adoption can be rough if patients aren't prepared. Our guests to help with this preparation are Stella Gilgur-Cook, LCSW, and Assistant Director of Outreach Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children; and Pat Irwin Johnson, author of Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families. Fertility treatment, donor egg vs. adoption, embryo donation vs. adoption, adopting after infertility, going back into fertility treatment after having adopted

The world of Special needs adoptions can be confusing. Parents need to explore the different types of special needs to determine which conditions and issues they can handle and which needs are beyond their comfort level to parent. Our guest, Dr. Mary Staat, Director, International Adoption Center at Cincinnati’s Children’s Medical Center, will walk us through the treatment, prognosis, and long term impacts of the most common special needs. Special Needs Adoptions, cleft lip/palate, heart murmur, albinism, amniotic band syndrome, Hepatitis C, HIV, AIDS, International adoption, domestic adoption, foster care adoptions

Can what you eat affect the success of infertility treatment? What should you eat and what should you avoid. What to include in your diet. Our guest will be Dr. Jeffrey Russell, Director of the Delaware Institute for Reproductive Medicine and lead researcher on some of these cutting edge studies. IVF, infertility treatment, Diet, nutrition, fertility treatment, IUI, ICSI

Several new studies have been released on how to treat depression in pregnant women and questioning the advisability of using antidepressant. What should women who are taking antidepressants do if they want to become pregnant. What about the woman who are suffering from the depressing disease of infertility?

Two of the researchers will be our guest to walk us through the risks and options: Dr. Adam Urato, with Tufts Medical Center and Dr. Alice Domar, Executive Director of the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health at Boston IVF, an assistant professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive biology at Harvard Medical School, and a senior staff psychologist in the department of ob/gyn at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Depression, antidepressants, infertility

Who better to talk about raising children who have been exposed inter utero to drugs and alcohol than a panel of mothers who are doing just that. What works, what doesn’t? What is life really like as a parent of a child with FASD. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, FAS, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, FASD, adoptive parenting, adoption, adopting a child with FASD, risk factors for FASD, issues to consider before adopting a child with alcohol or drug exposure

International adoptive parents most often first meet their child when they travel to the child’s birth country for the adoption. What can they do to take advantage of this time in country to bond with their child. Our guest are Rachel Lee, a psychologist and director of adoption for Dillon International’s California office and Michelle Moreau, a social worker and Post Placement Coordinator & Program Support for Hopscotch Adoptions. adoption. adopting from China, adopting from Russia, adopting from Ethiopia, adopting from Korea, adopting from Colombia, attachment parenting, bonding, attachment with adoption

What are the unique infertility issues in the Asia-Pacific Islander (API) community? Join our guests Dr. Collin Smikle, Reproductive Endocrinologist, founder and Medical Director of Laurel Fertility Care in San Francisco, Modesto and Fresno; Dr. Juli Fraga, a licensed psychologist in San Francisco, specializing in maternal, reproductive and women's health; Dana Ginn Paredes, Training Director, Forward Together (formerly Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice); and Gail Anderson, founder of Donor Concierge.

Sleep issues plague most new parents. Dr. Harvey Karp has a new book, Happiest Baby on the Block Guide to Sleep. Dr. Karp is a pediatrician, child development specialist, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the USC School of Medicine, and author of the popular Happiest Baby on the Block. colick, newborn, pacifier, crying it out