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, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews embryologist Scott Kratka, senior embryologist at the Reproductive Science Center of New Jersey and Board Certified by the American College of Embryology. 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: http://ctt.ec/ae0Jy Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/inside-embryology-lab-fertility-patients-need-know/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/inside-embryology-lab-fertility-patients-need-know/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adopti

Host Dawn Davenport talks with Dr. Michelle Ottey, Laboratory Director for Fairfax Cryobank, who works with male cancer patients; Dr. Stephen Lincoln, Medical Director of the Fertility Preservation Center for Cancer Patients at the Genetics and IVF Institute; and Lauren Haring, Director and Co-Founder of the Fertility Preservation Center for Cancer Patients at GIVF. 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: http://ctt.ec/c4H9e Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/cancer-preserve-fertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/cancer-preserve-fertility/ Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

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 Allison Douglas, Family Advocate at Harmony Family Center in Knoxville, TN. She and her husband have adopted 4 children via foster care. And Sue Badeau, President of the North American Council on Adoptable Children and adoptive mom of 22 children. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at Adoption A-Z Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/adoption/resources/ ) Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to tweet: http://ctt.ec/SEBab Facebook share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/parenting-toolkit-harder-parent-kids/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/parenting-toolkit-harder-parent-kids/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is pr

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 Angie Beltsos, the CEO and Medical Director of Vios Fertility Institute Chicago. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (REI), practicing medicine since 1991. 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: http://ctt.ec/d1B84 Facebook share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/endometrial-receptivity-endometrial-scratching/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/endometrial-receptivity-endometrial-scratching/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national n

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. Andy Toledo, a Reproductive Endocrinology with Reproductive Biology Associates in Atlanta. 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: http://ctt.ec/fbZ5k Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/get-pregnant-not-happening-fast/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/get-pregnant-not-happening-fast/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.Creating a Family brings y

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. Julia Bledsoe, a pediatrician specializing in adoption medicine and drug and alcohol exposure with the University of Washington Center for Adoption Medicine and the UW FAS Clinic. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/ri9Ef Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/accepting-adoption-match-opiates-methadone-hepatitis/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/accepting-adoption-match-opiates-methadone-hepatitis/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.Creating a Family brings you the following trauma-i

Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Hal Grotevant and Dr. Ruth McRoy, leading researchers in open 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: http://ctt.ec/fYecx Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/interview-pioneer-researchers-open-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/interview-pioneer-researchers-open-adoption/ Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

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 Kimberly Offutt, a social worker at Bethany Christian Services and Erin Q. Nasmyth, a licensed clinical social worker with Hopscotch Adoptions. 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: http://ctt.ec/q6ahW Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/joys-challenges-sibling-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/joys-challenges-sibling-adoption/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professi

Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Desireé McCarthy-Keith , a Board Certified reproductive endocrinologist with Georgia Reproductive Specialists, and a Clinical Professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Morehouse 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: http://ctt.ec/WC153 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/ivf-transfers-fresh-vs-frozen-3-day-vs-5-day/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/ivf-transfers-fresh-vs-frozen-3-day-vs-5-day/ Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

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 James Fletcher Thompson, an adoption attorney in South Carolina and has been a Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys since 1993; and Dr. Lisa Prock, specializing in adoption medicine at Boston Children's Hospital and is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard University. 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: http://ctt.ec/Lqjdu Facebook share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/legal-medical-risks-domestic-infant-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/legal-medical-risks-domestic-infant-adoption/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This

Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Ali Domar, the Executive Director of the Domar Center for Mind/Body Health, and author of "Finding Calm for the Expectant Mom: Tools for Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Mood Swings During Your Pregnancy". Please leave us a review on iTunes.Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/hnesR Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/pregnancy-infertility-relax-enjoy/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/pregnancy-infertility-relax-enjoy/ Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

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. Jim Toner, a reproductive endocrinologist with Atlanta Center for Reproductive Medicine; and Dr. Lawrence Werlin, reproductive endocrinologist and medical director of Coastal Fertility Medical Center, in Irvine, California. 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: http://ctt.ec/1Ucf6 Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-treatment-women-35/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/infertility-treatment-women-35/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mis

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 adoption therapist Carol Lozier, author of The Adoptive & Foster Parent Guide. 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: http://ctt.ec/Bv4K1 Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/works-healing-loss-trauma-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/works-healing-loss-trauma-adoption/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who support them.Creating a Family brings you the follo

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. William Ziegler, a Board Certified Specialist in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. He started the first egg donor program based in Monmouth and Ocean Counties. 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: http://ctt.ec/jTXrG Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/latest-developments-treatment-unexplained-infertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/latest-developments-treatment-unexplained-infertility/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to stre

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 Stella Gilgur-Cook, LCSW, adoption therapist, and former director of The Modern Family Center at Spence-Chapin Services; and Pat Irwin Johnson, author of Adopting: Sound Choices, Strong Families. 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: http://ctt.ec/ai90U Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/transitioning-fertility-treatment-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/transitioning-fertility-treatment-adoption/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen

Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Kim Phagan-Hansel, editor of Fostering Families Today magazine and The Foster Parenting Toolbox; and Madeleine Krebs, clinical coordinator at Center for Adoption Support and Education with over 35 years of experience. 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: http://ctt.ec/c_DQc Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/foster-care-adoption-transitioning-foster-adoption/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/foster-care-adoption-transitioning-foster-adoption/ Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport interviewed renowned researcher Dr. Susan Golombok, Director of the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge, and author of Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms; and Dr. Martha Rueter, Associate Professor of Family Social Science at University of Minnesota. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at A-Z Infertility Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/)  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Q_5zR Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/donor-spermegg-surrogacy-harmful-kids/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/donor-spermegg-surrogacy-harmful-kids/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit wit

Click here to send us a topic idea or question for Weekend Wisdom.Host Dawn Davenport interviewed Sheridan Voysey, author of Resurrection Year: Turning Broken Dreams Into New Beginnings, a book about his journey to deciding to live childfree after a 10 year struggle with infertility; and Jen Gamper, an infertility therapist with RMA New Jersey. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at out A-Z Infertility Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/infertility/resources/).  Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/0d49o Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/deciding-live-child-free-infertility/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/infertility-category/deciding-live-child-free-infertility/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthe

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 Richard Hill, genealogist and author of Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA; Bethany Waterbury, geneologist with Next of Kin Research; and CeCe Moore, a genealogist, speaker, and teacher of genetic genealogy courses. Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/Gue23 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/genetic-testing-genealogy-adoptees/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/genetic-testing-genealogy-adoptees/ Support the showPlease leave us a rating or review. This podcast is produced by www.CreatingaFamily.org. We are a national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the professionals who

Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Brooke Randolph, LMHC, is a child and family therapist and author of The Bully Book: A Workbook for Kids Coping with Bullies; and Debora Gish, LCSW, with Adoption Connection with 20 experience working with kids and families. Creating a Family has many free resources school issues on Adoption A-Z Resource Guide (https://creatingafamily.org/adoption/resources/ ). Please leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks. Click to Tweet: http://ctt.ec/aKY47 Facebook Share: https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=https%3A//creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/helping-kids-cope-bullies-school/ Show Highlights: https://creatingafamily.org/adoption-category/helping-kids-cope-bullies-school/ Support the show (https://creatingafamily.org/donation/)