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Dewey Decimal Number: 362.734019 Format: Bargain Price Label: Rodale Books Manufacturer: Rodale Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: August 07, 2004 Publisher: Rodale Books Studio: Rodale Books Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Over 150,000 people adopt children each year, and more than 2 million parents are now raising adopted children and grandchildren. While the path to parenting through adoption is rich with rewards and fulfillment, it's not without its bumps. This compassionate, illuminating, and ultimately uplifting book is the first to openly recognize the very normal feelings of stress that adoptive families encounter as they cope with the challenges and expectations of their new families. Where do parents turn when the waited-for bonding with their adopted child is slow to form? When they find themselves grieving over the birth child they couldn't have? When the child they so eagerly welcomed into their home arrives with major, unexpected needs? Until now, adoptive parents have had to struggle silently with their feelings, which can range from flutters of anxiety to unbearable sadness.At last, Karen J. Foli, a registered nurse, and her husband, John R. Thompson, a psychiatrist, lift the curtain of secrecy from "Post Adoption Depression Syndrome" (PADS). Drawing on their own experience as adoptive parents as well as interviews with dozens of adoptive families and experts in the field, the couple offers parents the understanding, support, and concrete solutions they need to overcome post-adoption blues-and open their hearts to the joy adoption can bring. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Disappointed!I have not read it yet, but my husband is adopted and we are adopting a little girl... he picked up the book to read it...read 3-4 pages and put it down. He chose another book to read?? Rating:  - A must read for adoptive parentsThis book has been very inciteful and encouraging. I would recommend that those who are waiting for their child or have recently adopted read this book. The authors give great insight into the struggles of adoption and the related issues that can cause post-adoption depression, and what to watch for. They also give some practical suggestions on how to "fight" this depression at the end of each chapter. It was great to read the many different stories and know that I was not alone! Rating: - The Post-Adoption Blues: Overcoming the Unforseen Challenges of AdoptionThis book helped me understand that Post-Adoption Blues can happen and that you don't have to hide your feelings when the blues set in after adoption. Rating:  - Not A Must Read For Every Adoptive ParentMany of the situations and examples in this book are so different from our adoption scenario that I had to really dig in to find a few pieces that spoke to me. The book spends a lot of time encouraging infertile couples to be sure they have worked through the loss of the biological child they will never have. Infertility is not something we have dealt with. We have just always wanted to adopt and have no expectations or fantasies of biological children, so I didn't find these sections ... Read More Rating: - Unexpected and excellent!!This was a surprisingly wonderful book! After so many pregnancy losses, I was not really interested in how we may be faced with a different type of depression as my heart was ready to focus on the life that would be joining our family instead of the death we have experienced. Needless to say, there was a large part of me that was hesitant in buying this book. Only, I kept coming back to it and I am so glad that I did. This is NOT the "doom and gloom" book that I assumed it would be! It discusses ... Read More 
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