Creating a Family: Talk about Infertility and Adoption show

Creating a Family: Talk about Infertility and Adoption

Summary: Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption and Infertility. Since 2007, we interview leading experts on infertility and adoption each week to bring you unbiased accurate information on all aspects of adoption and infertility. In adoption we cover how to adopt a baby, open adoption, foster care adoption, international adoption, attachment parenting, transracial adoption, special need adoptions and more. In infertility we cover latest advances in in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, infertility medications, emotional aspects, egg donation, surrogacy, how to choose an fertility clinic and much more.

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 Premature Ovarian Failure: Causes, Prevention, Treatment | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:04:00

What causes premature menopause or ovarian failure? What are the symptoms?  What can you do to prevent and treat it? Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support organization, will interview Dr. Mark Perloe, Medical Director of Georgia Reproductive Specialists in Atlanta. He received trained at Penn State University and the University of Wisconsin before completing an Reproductive Endocrinology fellowship at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Benjamin Leader is Director of Clinical Research at ReproSource, a clinical fertility testing and research laboratory dedicated to improving reproductive health. Dr. Leader is a Harvard and MIT-trained physician scientist.

 Lifestyle Choices that Increase Your Chances of Getting Pregnant | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:00

What lifestyle choices affect your ability to conceive or the odds of fertility treatment working? How do diet, drinking alcohol, and exercise affect getting pregnant and miscarriage risk. Do supplements work? Host Dawn Davenport will interview Dr. Sheeva Talebian, a board certified Reproductive Endocrinologist and infertility specialist at Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York based in Manhattan. Dr. Talebian icontributes to publications including Women’s Health, Well + Good, and Women’s Running.  Outside of work, she is an avid runner and cyclist, and is frequently approached for her expert advice on incorporating exercise while attempting to conceive.   Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources about infertility can be found here.

 Should You Use an Adoption Consultant, Facilitator, or Attorney | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:00

Adopting a baby in the US can be confusing. Where do you find a child to adopt? How long does it take?  Should you use an adoption consultant, adoption facilitator, or adoption attorney. What is the difference and will is cost more or less and will it be faster? Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national adoption & infertility education and support organization, will interview guests Jim Thompson, an adoption attorney in South Carolina, and fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorney; Nicole Witt, with The Adoption Consultancy; and Lisa Sweet, a Licensed California Facilitator with Sweet Beginnings Adoptions.  Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here: Blog Summary of the Show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on adoption attorneys can be found here.

 Interracial Adoptive Parenting: White Parents with Brown Kids | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:00

  Transracial adoption is becoming increasingly popular in the US. There are issues unique to parenting a child of a different race. Our guest is Dr. Marlene Fine. She is a Professor Emerita from Simmons College in Boston MA specializing in issues related to race, racial identity, and interracial communication, and the co-author with her spouse, Fern Johnson, of The Interracial Adoption Option: Creating a Family Across Race.  She is the white adoptive mother of two African American sons, both adopted as infants and now ages 24 and 25.  She is also a facilitator with the YW Boston Community Dialogues on Race and Ethnicity. Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on interracial adoptive parenting can be found here.

 All About Siblings: Parental Favoritism, Birth Order | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:00

Time Magazine’s cover story on parental favoritism got to me.  I literally argued out loud with the author while reading.  It seemed only fare to have him on the show so we could argue in person.  Jeffrey Kluger, author of the new book The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us, and an editor and science reporter at Time, will be our guest to talk about siblings, favoritism, birth order, ideal spacing, and lots more. Birth Order, favoritism, spacing between children, sibling rivalry, preference for sons.  

 Loans for Infertility Treatment | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:00

Having trouble paying for your fertility treatment? Are you considering borrowing money to pay for treatment? Host Dawn Davenport will be talking with representatives of the leading lending entities that lend specifically for paying for infertility treatment. You must listen to this show if you are considering taking out a loan for fertility treatment. Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on paying for infertility treatment can be found here.

 Preserving Fertility with a Cancer Diagnosis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:00

A diagnosis of cancer is devastating on so many different levels. Often patients are so overwhelmed that the last thing they think about is getting on with their life once treatment is past. This would include taking action now to preserve their option to have children after cancer. Host Dawn Davenport talks with Dr. Michelle Ottey, Laboratory Director for Fairfax Cryobank, who works with male cancer patients; Dr. Stephen Lincoln, Medical Director of the Fertility Preservation Center for Cancer Patients at the Genetics and IVF Institute; and Lauren Haring, Director and Co-Founder of the Fertility Preservation Center for Cancer Patients at GIVF.   Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on preserving fertility can be found here.

 Adopting Siblings: Special Issues to Consider | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:00

We try not to separate siblings in adoption when possible, but adopting siblings brings special consideration for adoptive parents. Our guests to talk about sibling adoption are Kimberly Offutt, a social worker at Bethany Christian Services and  Erin Q. Nasmyth, a licensed clinical social worker with Hopscotch Adoptions, who has spent spent the last ten years working with families and children in the foster care system, in child mental health and supporting families in adoption.   Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on sibling adoption can be found here.

 Why Consider Open Adoption & How to Do it Well | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:03:00

Open adoption is the norm in for domestic infant adoptions in the US and becoming more common in foster care adoption and international adoption. Host Dawn Davenport will interview Dr. Hal Grotevant and Dr. Ruth McRoy, long time researchers on the impact of openness on all members of the adoption triad, and lead researchers of the Minnesota / Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP). They literally wrote the book on open adoption and how we currently practice adoption.    Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on open adoption can be found here.

 Making Peace With Not Having Children | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:00

Infertility treatment is not always successful and neither is adoption. Couples may have to face the decision of living childfree. Host Dawn Davenport will interview Sheridan Voysey, author of Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings, a book about his journey to deciding to live childfree after he and his wife struggled to create a family for 10 years; and Jen Gamper, an infertility therapist with RMA New Jersey. She also has a private psychotherapy practice in Basking Ridge, NJ. Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on being child free can be found here.

 Panel of Young Adult Transracial Adoptees | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06:00

The real experts on transracial adoption are the people who were adopted by parents of a different race or ethnicity. We have done many shows on interracial adoption, including several panels of transracial adoptees, but we wanted to focus on those that are currently in their 20s whose life experience more closely resembles the experiences of children who are being adopted across racial lines today. Host Dawn Davenport interviews four black adoptees in their 20s who were raised by white parents.    Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on transracial adoption can be found here.

 Becoming a First Time Mom Over 40-Things to Consider | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:06:00

Should you become a first time mom over 40? Over 45? Over 50? What are the unique issues older mothers face? What are the challenges and reward of older parenthood? Host Dawn Davenport interviews a panel of women who became mothers through fertility treatment or adoption over the age of 40.

 Being Happy While Struggling with Infertility | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:01:00

Is it possible to be happy when you are suffering from infertility and going through fertility treatment? Host Dawn Davenport interviews Dr. Ali Domar, international leader in the field of mind/body medicine and women’s health, founder of The Domar Center for Mind/Body Health, and author of numerous books including Conquering Infertility and Being Happy Without Being Perfect.   Highlights of the show can be found here: Highlights More Creating a Family resources on infertility can be found here.  

 Grants for Infertility Treatment: Affording IVF | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:00

Are grants available to help pay for fertility treatment? How do you apply and what are the granting organizations looking for. Host Dawn Davenport will interview Lisa Duran, Director of Pay it Forward Fertility Foundation, a non profit organization that assists couples in paying for fertility treatments not covered by health insurance; and Dr. Camille Hammond, Director of the Tinina Q. Cade Foundation, which provides grants to assist needy infertile families.   Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on affording IVF can be found here.

 Talking with Adopted Kids about Birth Parents | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:00

How can adoptive parents talk with their children about their birth parents. Host Dawn Davenport will interview Dr. Jennifer Bliss, the National Associate Counseling Director at the Independent Adoption Center, a non-profit domestic infant adoption agency; and  Danielle Goodman, Lead Social Worker in the Delaware office of Adoptions from the Heart, a nonprofit domestic infant adoption agency.   Blog summary of the show and highlights can be found here:   Blog summary of the show   Highlights   More Creating a Family resources on talking to adopted children about birth parents can be found here.

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