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[quote=Anonymous]Here's what our adoption agency recommended in terms of bonding- our daughter was 10.5 months old when she came home. She'd been living with her foster family since she was 1 month old and was very attached to her.  They required parents take off 6 weeks and said it could be split between parents.  They also said that we should be the only ones to hold her/feed her/comfort her for those 6 weeks so that she knew who her caregivers were.  We ended up not really adhering to that- we let family members hold and feed her, but if she was upset, we took care of that ourselves.  I took 3 months off with her and my husband took another 3 months, so she had 6 months at home before she went to daycare.  She seems fine today at 5.5 years old.  The first 3 or 4 days were really hard- there was a lot of grieving that went on.

FWIW, I was also adopted, at 5 months old. I don't believe I have any issues related to "abandonment" or what have you, but I suppose one never knows deep down inside.[/quote]

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