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Support Links...
We've put together an easy to navigate page with a variety of support links that might make a big difference to you.
When your child grieves a birth sibling they have never met
It often arrives as a question with no warning. Do I have a sister? Where is my brother? For many adopted children, birth siblings are a presence in their inner lives long before they are a presence in their conversations. The grief is real, often invisible, and rarely talked about.
When you didn't fall in love at first sight, the bonding stories adoptive parents rarely admit to
There is a quiet thing many adopters know but rarely say out loud. The moment they had imagined, the first time they met their child or first held them at home, did not feel the way the books and films had suggested it would. It did not feel like falling in love. It felt awkward, or unreal, or like meeting someone for the first time and trying very hard to act normal.
Sleep and adopted children, why rest can be disrupted for years
Most adopters know the bedtime struggle. The bath, the books, the calm, then a child who wakes hours later, or cannot fall asleep at all, or sleeps in fits and starts in your bed long past the age you imagined. Standard parenting advice rarely matches the reality. Sleep in adopted children is its own thing.
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