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[quote=Anonymous]We have two adopted AA children, one with disclosed exposure to drugs & alcohol in utero. She doesn’t have FAS and honestly while she has had developmental delays all her life (mostly OT and speech therapy)  and continues to get services for them, she is such the easier kid to raise/parent. She’s bright, kind and really able to express her feelings of loss. But she’s also just naturally laid back and confident.

Our older child had no exposure issues at all (her birth mom had two other kids at age 20) but has a strong personality, anxiety, ADHD and just feels the loss that comes with adoption so passionately/intensely, but really struggles to express her feelings, which end up bursting out in tantrums. The challenges we have with her are the ones I have expected to see with the kid with alcohol & drug exposure.

(Both kids in therapy.) Anyway, this is to say, personality, which is obviously so unpredictable, goes a long way.

But the PP is right about alcohol exposure. It really depends on when it was in the pregnancy. I have a nephew who has FAS and his mom swears she didn’t drink, but she also didn’t know she was pregnant until month four and she definitely was partying hard those years.[/quote]

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