Feature Story
Your Baby, Yourself
At last, after months of waiting, your child is home. Adoptive parents may worry that missing out on pregnancy or their infant’s first days or months will impede attachment. In fact, for both biological and adoptive families, attachment is almost always a journey, not an instant event. >>>
First Days
Meeting Baby
- Meeting Your BabyThe first few days with your new baby will bring a cornucopia of emotions. Here's how to focus on what counts—bonding with your baby.
- Ten Tips for Helping Babies Adjust
Promoting Attachment
- Connecting Through Everyday Baby CareDressing, feeding, burping, tickling, tucking into bed—the nuts and bolts of baby care bring the moments that can draw you together.
- Share Your Story: Baby CarriersFrom Our Reader Panel: Adoptive moms are passionate about their baby carriers. We asked for your favorites, and here’s what you said:July/August 2004
- Ask the Doctor: Promoting Attachment
Post-Adoption Checkups
- Finding a PhysicianAn adoption-sensitive pediatrician or family medicine physician brings special expertise in caring for your baby’s medical and developmental needs.
- Post-Adoption Checkupsby Deborah Borchers, M.D.
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