A little bit o’ reflection

It’s coming up on eight weeks since Bear’s birth, and now seems as good a time as any to jot down some of my thoughts before they vanish in a cloud of sleep deprivation. I’m just now getting a sense of what people mean when they say that these days will go by all too [...]

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Developmental milestones for babies are meaningless. – By Nicholas Day – Slate Magazine

One of the first temptations we have had to overcome as parents (adoptive or otherwise) was to compare our son’s progress against the nameless, faceless children of the same age, especially as it pertains to physical milestones or averages.  When we took Bear in for his two-week pediatrician visit recently, we were told what percentile [...]

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Article: How to choose an adoption agency

For those who are still early in the process of adoption and haven’t yet chosen an agency, I recommend you take a few minutes and read this piece.  It’s short and addresses a very important point – far too many agencies out there (and we witnessed a few ourselves) seem to be nothing more than [...]

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Mythbusters

One of the many reasons we told relatively few people about our experiences with infertility treatments (and that was no small feat, given that the whole odyssey took around 3 years) was that we just didn’t want to deal with the questions.  Despite having a support system of well-meaning friends and family we simply didn’t [...]

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