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A Child Chosen - Perspectives of an Adoptive Parent

Archive for the ‘The Bebe’ Category

March 3rd, 2008

How To Choose a Name

How do you choose a name for an adopted child? Do you keep their birth name, change it entirely, give them a name representative of their culture or ethnicity, or do you allow them to chose?

Tags: , Adoption, birth family, birth-mother, chosing, culture, ethnicity, names

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By Marcie -- 3 comments

February 26th, 2008

You Can’t Outsmart Grief

Parenting is full of grief.
Adoption, relinquishment, loss, abandonment, neglect, abuse, are full of grief.
Infertility and miscarriage are full of grief.
And no one type of grief can trump the other. 
Tags: , abandonment, abuse, Adoption, biological, birth families, birth-parents, conceive, Family Court, grief, Infertility, Juno, miscarriage, neglect, relinquishment, Russia

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February 26th, 2008

Family Court and DNA…Today!

Stay Tuned for the BIG NAME REVEAL. Once we get word that everything went according to plan you WILL know his name!
Tags: , Adoption, DNA, Family Court, Guatemala, The Bebe

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February 23rd, 2008

I Want Vegetables…

What kid wants (and REQUESTS?) vegetables for a snack?
Mine, of course.

We totally lucked out with a kid who eats his vegetables and takes his medicine. He’s a champ in my book.
 
How do you get your kids to eat their vegetables?
I’m a little worried about The Bebe. Because you know with all of my luck The […]

By Marcie -- 3 comments

February 22nd, 2008

Adoption; Infertility, Baby Stealing, and the need for Reform

I have been working on this post all day and I have been hesitant to click the publish button because I don’t know how it will be perceived. Words are very unpredictable. But I am taking the chance because I do want my voice to be heard; I just don’t want to be misunderstood.
Adoption has […]

By Marcie -- 15 comments

February 19th, 2008

New Pics of The Bebe!

The Bebe is growin’!
And so is Mama?
Tags: bebe, CNA, DNA, Family Court, growing, Guatemama, pictures, Sleep, waiting

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By Marcie -- 2 comments