Creating A Family: Talk About Infertility, Adoption & Foster Care

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Kristen Wright, a Reproductive Endocrinologist at the Reproductive Science Center of New England in New Hampshire; and Patricia Sachs, clinical social worker and infertility counselor at Shady Grove Fertility. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=Seeking%20Closure%20When%20Disposing%20of%20Unused%20Embryos%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-radio-shows/seeking-closure-when-disposing-of-unused-embryos/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-radio-shows/seeking-closure-when-disposing-of-unused-embryos/ Show Highlights:

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Becky Fawcett, Executive Director of Help Us Adopt; Julie Gumm, author of Adopt Without Debt: Creative Ways to Cover the Cost of Adoption; and Cherri Walrod, Director of Resources 4 Adoption. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=Adopting%20Without%20Debt%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-radio-shows/adopting-without-debt/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-radio-shows/adopting-without-debt/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-radio-shows/adopting-without-debt/ Support the showPlease leave us a ra

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Elaine Gordon, a clinical psychologist with a specialty in infertility and child development. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20show%3A%20How%20to%20Talk%20with%20Kids%20about%20Donor%20Conception%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-radio-shows/how-to-talk-with-kids-about-donor-conception/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-radio-shows/how-to-talk-with-kids-about-donor-conception/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-radio-shows/how-to-talk-with-kids-abo

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Sally Ann Rhea, the study coordinator for the Colorado Adoption Project, and Dr. Alexandra Burt, Associate Professor of behavioral genetics with affiliation with the Michigan State University Twin Registry. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20show%3A%20Nature%20vs.%20Nurture%20in%20Adoption%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-radio-shows/nature-vs-nurture-in-adoption/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-radio-shows/nature-vs-nurture-in-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adopt

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Zev Williams, MD, PhD, Chief of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at Columbia University Medical Center and Columbia University Fertility Center. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/how-the-immune-system-affects-fertility-and-miscarriage/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20show%3A%20How%20the%20Immune%20System%20Affects%20Fertility%20and%20Miscarriage%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/how-the-immune-system-affects-fertility-and-miscarriage/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infer

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Gina Samuels about How Transracial Adoptees Navigate Race as they Age.  Dr. Gina Samuels is an Associate Professor with the University of Chicago and the Center for the Study of Race Politics and Culture, and transracial adoptee. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/how-transracial-adoptees-navigate-race-as-they-age-2/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20show%3A%20How%20Transracial%20Adoptees%20Navigate%20Race%20as%20They%20Age%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/how-transracial-adoptees-navigate-race-as-they-age-2/ Show Highlights: https

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Alex Quaas, a reproductive endocrinologist with Reproductive Partners Fertility Center–San Diego, about the latest developments in the treatment of PCOS.   Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20Creating%20a%20Family%3A%20Latest%20Developments%20in%20the%20Treatment%20of%20PCOS%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/latest-developments-in-the-treatment-of-pcos/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/latest-developments-in-the-treatment-of-pcos/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/latest-developments-in-the-trea

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Rebecca Wilmoth and Josh Kroll about the Adoption Tax Credit 2018. Josh Kroll is an Adoption Subsidy Resource Center coordinator at NACAC; and Becky Wilmoth is an Enrolled Agent and Adoption Tax Credit Specialist with Bills Tax Service. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20show%3A%20Adoption%20Tax%20Credit%202018%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-tax-credit-2018/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-tax-credit-2018/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/adoption-tax-credit-2018/ Support the showPlea

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Ross Greene, clinical child psychologist who was on the faculty at Harvard Medical School for 20+ years, and is the author of "Raising Human Beings" and "The Explosive Child". Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website atwww.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/practical-tips-for-helping-kids-de-escalate/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20show%3A%20Practical%20Tips%20for%20Helping%20Kids%20De-Escalate%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/practical-tips-for-helping-kids-de-escalate/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/practical-tips-for-helpi

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Jeffrey Kluger, author ofThe Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us, and an editor and science reporter at Time Magazine. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20show%3A%20Birth%20Order,%20Birth%20Spacing,%20and%20Parental%20Favortism%20https%3A//www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%253A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/birth-order-birth-spacing-and-parental-favortism/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/birth-order-birth-spacing-and-parental-favortism/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adop

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Jeff Ecker, a high risk obstetrician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Julianne Zweifel, a psychologist and professor in the department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; and Dr. Linda Applegarth, the Director of Psychological Services at the Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20show%3A%20How%20Old%20is%20Too%20Old%20To%20Be%20Pregnant%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/how-old-is-too-old-to-be-pregnant/ Share on Facebo

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Mark Evans, medical director at Comprehensive Genetics and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20show%3A%20What%20Embryonic%20Genetic%20Testing%20Can%20(and%20Can%E2%80%99t)%20Tell%20Us%20%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/what-embryonic-genetic-testing-can-and-cant-tell-us/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/what-embryonic-genetic-testing-can-and-cant-tell-us/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/what-embryonic-gen

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Karen Foli, Director of the PhD in Nursing Program at Purdue University School of Nursing, a leading researcher in the post adoption transition, and co-author of “Post Adoption Blues”. Her new book “Nursing Care of Adoption and Kinship Families” received the American Psychiatric Nurses Association 2018 Award for Media. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=Transitioning%20Home%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/transitioning-home-as-a-newly-adoptive-family-things-to-prepare-for/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/transitioning-home-as-a-newly-adopti

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Joe Massey, a reproductive endocrinologist with Servy Massey Fertility Institute and co-founder of Egg Donor Collaborative, and Dr. Ronald Feinberg, a reproductive endocrinologist and Director of IVF Programs at Reproductive Associates of Delaware and co-founder of Egg Donor Collaborative. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/options-in-egg-donation/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20Creating%20a%20Family%20show%3A%20Options%20in%20Egg%20Donation%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/options-in-egg-donation/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/options-in-egg-dona

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Torie Comeaux Plowden, a reproductive endocrinologist and researcher in the area of disparity with success rates for minorities and access to care. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=Why%20Women%20of%20Color%20are%20Less%20Likely%20to%20Get%20Pregnant%20with%20Infertility%20Treatment%20%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/why-women-of-color-are-less-likely-to-get-pregnant-with-infertility-treatment/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/why-women-of-color-are-less-likely-to-get-pregnant-with-infertility-treatment/ Show Highlights: https:

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national adoption and foster care education and support nonprofit, interviews Amanda Purvis, a training specialist with the Karyn Purvis Institute of Child Development, about the practical applications of Trauma-Informed Parenting and Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI). Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks.  Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/foster-care/trauma-informed-parenting-practical-applications-of-tbri/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20Creating%20a%20Family%20show%3A%20Trauma-Informed%20Parenting%3A%20Practical%20Applications%20of%20TBRI%20%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/foster-care/trauma-informed-parenting-practical-applications-of-tbri/ Show Highlights: https://crea

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Jason Franasiak, Reproductive Endocrinologist with RMA New Jersey; and Dr. Erin Wolff, former Assistant Clinical Investigator with the National Institute for Health. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=This%20week's%20Creating%20a%20Family%20show%3A%20How%20Microbiome%20of%20Reproductive%20Tract%20Affects%20Our%20Fertility%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/radio-show/how-microbiome-of-reproductive-tract-affects-our-fertility/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/radio-show/how-microbiome-of-reproductive-tract-affects-our-fertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/radio-show/how-microbiome-of-reproductive-tract-affects-our-fertility/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaF

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national adoption and foster care education and support nonprofit, interviews Jennifer McCallum, Lead Post Adoption Counselor at Buckner Children & Family Services, and Dr. Lark Eshleman, a consultant and educator whose expertise is working with children and families who have experienced early emotional trauma, attachment difficulties, neglect and abuse.  Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/unexpected-stresses-on-newly-adoptive-families/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20Creating%20a%20Family%20show%3A%20Unexpected%20Stresses%20on%20Newly%20Adoptive%20Families%20https%3A//www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%253A//creatinga

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Michelle Ottey, Director of Operations at Fairfax Cryobank, and Melanie Mikkelsen, LCSW, infertility counselor and Donor Liaison at Seattle Reproductive Medicine. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org. Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/is-there-any-such-thing-as-anonymous-donation-in-3rd-party-reproduction/ Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20Creating%20a%20Family%20show%3A%20Is%20There%20any%20Such%20Thing%20as%20Anonymous%20Donation%20In%203rd%20Party%20Reproduction?%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/is-there-any-such-thing-as-anonymous-donation-in-3rd-party-reproduction/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafam

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Irene Steffas, an attorney specializing in both adoption and immigration law. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www.CreatingaFamily.org.  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: https://twitter.com/home?status=New%20Creating%20a%20Family%20show%3A%20How%20to%20Protect%20Citizenship%20for%20Internationally%20Adopted%20Children%20https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/how-to-protect-citizenship-for-internationally-adopted-children/ Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/how-to-protect-citizenship-for-internationally-adopted-children/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/how-to-protect-citizenship-for-internationally-adopted-c