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Need Advice on Schizophrenia!
HiI too have adopted 2 children one age 10 months and a 3 year old they have the same mother different fathersShe too has been in serval mental instatutions ...
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- I can only imagine how hard this decision is for you. While I don't have any experience with schizoprenia, I can share some information on the speech and physical the...
- I don't have any "insight" into this issue, but I do know a few reasons a baby would be in therapies. Being born premature, meds the M. could have been on or drugs she...
- I am the child of a diagnosed schizophrenic. My parents divorced when I was 6, and I lived with my dad until the age of 12. I did not find out about the diagnosis un...
Emotions Running Too High
I wish you the best of luck whether you can ever maybe have children on your own or whether you might consider adoptionsomething my hubby and I had ...
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- I think you have normal feelings..it took me a long time to get pregnant (after having an ectopic pregnancy) I didn't think I was physically able to! I used to be ver...
- Hang in there! i was in my mid 30's when i started trying to have a baby. I had 3 miscarriages (the last one twins). i was told that i wouldn't be able to carry a ba...
- As one mom said, don't give up. You are still very young and it could be that your body just isn't ready yet. I married at 19 and was never on any type of birth cont...
Adoptive Parents
Read all 9 responses: "My husband and I adopted two children at birth from Social Services (full siblings born 16 months apart). We have limited information ...
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- Hi N.. I don't know what parents are doing now, I can share with you that my parents adopted me when I was 3 months old. My mother always told me the truth that I was ...
- Hi N., We adopted two children also. Our children's favorite bedtime story when they were young was their own story. I would tell each child the story of a couple w...
- Hi - I am adopted and my parents told me a bed time story that they made up about how two parents wanted a children so badly and they waited... and they waited.... and...
How Do We Adopt a Family Member's Baby?
Our adoption agendcy was great and I'm sure that they could get you started with information. Children's Home Society of MN (and they may be able to help ...
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- You can contact a lawyer to help you through the process and, more importantly, to make sure that your rights are protected. My understanding of the adoption process ...
- Make sure she gets counseling before any decisions are made to make sure this will be the best decision for her. Having to watch you raise her baby may be harder than ...
- I'm an adoptive mom of two babies and an attorney. :-)You can do it without an agency but you do need to get an attorney for yourself and one for your potential birth...
Pregnancy After 43
We are finishing up building a house, and are trying to build lots of extra space to house either foster children or adopt an older girl, to make our family ...
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- It sounds like you do know the answer is having another child, even if it were medically *perfect* would still cause stress in your life. Also, as the eldest of 8 kid...
- I don't know if i chance it or not. It is up to you,I would not want reasurence for something like that(the choice). That is a choice you are going to have to make. An...
- You are wise to consider this carefully. Your chances of having a child with Down syndrome are higher now, and even though it might be picked up by an amniocentesis, ...
Beagle Aggressive Behavior
That is just a risk you take when you adopt an older dogs. Get a puppy ...they will grow up with your children and you can train them easier from the ...
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- I don't know. I have a 4 year old daughter and 2 beagles. The only time there was a problem with aggression was when my daughter was very rough on our female one who h...
- I applaud you for adopting a dog, but it doesn't always work when you have little ones. Apparently the beagle has had some kind of bad experience in the past from kids...
- I would seek professional advice about the dog but in the mean time keep your baby away from him. My dog was never agressive to anyone but I still wouldnt trust them ...
Undecided About Having Another Child...
But there are other ways to add children...foster to adopt is a great program. Wanting something doesn't mean you have to get it in the same way most people ...
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- I don't think giving your daughter a sibling should be a concern. I'm an only child as is my daughter ... and not all siblings get along or even like each other. Y...
- Dear Ann Marie, Choosing whether or not to have another child is always a big decision whether you have one child or 3. I was told I could never have any children, so...
- Good luck with a hard decision. To make things easier for your decision, have you considered asking about a genetic test to rule in or out the auto-immune disease ...
Friend's Adoptive Newborn Son Had to Be Returned to Biological Grandparents
Sep 29, 2009 ... We had a failed domestic adoption, then went on and adopted 2 beautiful children internationally, and now I see (looking back) that these ...
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- what a good friend you are! how about taking them out for dinner, or offering a massage session?
- Hey I too had a failed adoption. We were days away from getting the baby and the mom disappeared, never to be heard from. Things worked out and a month later we wer...
- hello K. i am a mother of five with one on the way i have to keep stop typing and wipe my eyes because the tear won't stop flowing what a hard and sad thing for any p...
Only Child Issue
I don't know if you have every thought about adoption. There are so many children in the Foster care system that are looking for loving homes and siblings ...
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- My son is 14 and an only child. I had him very young so by the time I even thought about having another, he still would have essentially grown up as an only child anyw...
- I am an only child and I will tell you the truth according to me...I too had lots of cousins that I played with all the time but they all went back to their houses tog...
- HaVE you considered being a foster parent to a very needy child that's the same age or just younger than her? You can try to meet the parents of some of the other c...
Ultrasound
... to adopt a child it would be a Down Syndrome child They are so special ... the same Some have more and some have less Down's children are nothing to be ...
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- sometime the doctor has to be sure to look into the ultrasound and it take a few month to tell the different , I have never heard of this one ,if i want to know for s...
- hes covering his butt. if he doesnt say anything and the baby does have downs your sister could sue. tell her to have an amneo good luck
- My story is not exactly the same as yours but I wanted to share it with you anyway...I hope you don't mind. When I was far enough along to get the quad screen (labwor...
