[Nursery Notes]

Did you find someone for this little tExas boy?

[Choosing Domestic Adoption Vs. International?]

Thanks for posting, Elizabeth. It is so sad and just a disgrace to humanity. I spent a summer in China- there are legitimate orphans who have no home or who were given up because they wanted to have a boy. That the govt and other people would exploit children in this way.

[Nursery Notes]

Is Brianna back in the office after the wedding?

[Adoptive Breastfeeding]

Here's a brand-new, just-went-live compendium of resources from the most excellent Creating a Family site:

http://www.creatingafamily.org/adoption-resources/breastfeeding-the-adopted-child.html

In specific reply to Suzi's post above, I quote:

In a 1995 study of 240 adopted infants in which 80% were previously bottle-fed, 35% of the mothers had never given birth, and 23% had never previously breastfed found the following:

• 75% of the babies were willing to nurse by the end of the first week of trying
  
• More than 75% of mothers felt positive about their lactation experience.
  
• 54% of infants required supplementation for the duration of nursing.
  
• 25% of women who had never been pregnant before were able to eliminate supplements completely before weaning off the breast.
  

Mothers reported that the benefit of bonding was more important than milk production.

Dr. Lenore Goldfarb, our adoption and surrogacy breastfeeding expert, said on the Feb. 9, 2011 Creating a Family show that in a study of her patients following the Newman-Goldfarb protocol, 31% were able to produce all of their baby’s milk needs without supplementation.

Elizabeth,

I agree. As a medical professional, the results from breastfeeding non-biolical is negligible. It has to do with the mother baby immunity . Thanks for posting.

Beth