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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did you have any difficulty bonding with your adopted DC?  I have had some problems bonding with my DD.  She's mine biologically, but I am an adult adoptee who had (undiagnosed) RAD issues as a child.  TIA[/quote]

OP here.  I had an initial bump in bonding with my adopted child due to the circumstances around our meeting.  She was 7 months old at the time of referral and we were sent a lot of pics and videos taken when she was 6 months old.  We didn't get to pick her up until she was almost 11 months old and she'd been with her foster family since 2 months.  She hated us immediately and screamed non-stop the entire 15 hour flight home.  It was a really bumpy beginning for sure.  I had fallen in love with her the way she looked at 6 months old and she looked really different at 11 months- the hair! The teeth! It took me a couple of days to get over disliking her, and my husband had to remind me that she hadn't asked to be adopted, etc.  I think it took about 3 days to bond.  But, it took me awhile to bond with my bio child too...I'm just not a kids person.[/quote]

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