Comments on: Adopting Sevyn Grace http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace Just another WordPress site Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:05:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Matt Donovan http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace#comment-49 Matt Donovan Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:25:05 +0000 http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace/#comment-49 @ Mike - Bonding can be tough. I often find myself wondering if some of the bonding issues I've faced with our daughter are unique to adoption or just part of parenting. I think it's both - and almost impossible to tell the difference. I encourage you to download <a href="http://2007.tapestryconference.org/tapestry-conference-binder-materials.pdf" rel="nofollow">the notes from last year's Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Fall Conference</a>. Pages 25-30 focus on the realities of race and culture in adoption - which may play into your struggle? @ Mike – Bonding can be tough. I often find myself wondering if some of the bonding issues I’ve faced with our daughter are unique to adoption or just part of parenting. I think it’s both – and almost impossible to tell the difference. I encourage you to download the notes from last year’s Tapestry Adoption & Foster Care Fall Conference. Pages 25-30 focus on the realities of race and culture in adoption – which may play into your struggle?

]]> By: Mike http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace#comment-48 Mike Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:44:40 +0000 http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace/#comment-48 Thanks for your story, we are in a very similar situation, 3yr old bio and newborn adopted AfAm baby, it is wonderful but I seem to be having issues bonding- any resources or blogs /discussion forums? I never wanted to think I would have problems adopting but it is what it is... help! Thanks for your story, we are in a very similar situation, 3yr old bio and newborn adopted AfAm baby, it is wonderful but I seem to be having issues bonding- any resources or blogs /discussion forums? I never wanted to think I would have problems adopting but it is what it is… help!

]]> By: Matt Donovan http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace#comment-47 Matt Donovan Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:15:08 +0000 http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace/#comment-47 @Jeff - Okay, we didn't literally crap ourselves. Just a figure of speech. @Jeff – Okay, we didn’t literally crap ourselves. Just a figure of speech.

]]> By: Jeff Adams http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace#comment-46 Jeff Adams Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:39:09 +0000 http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace/#comment-46 Thanks for sharing! You may want to edit the "we crapped ourselves" that I assume was meant to be "we scrapped ourselves!" Thanks for sharing! You may want to edit the “we crapped ourselves” that I assume was meant to be “we scrapped ourselves!”

]]> By: Matt Donovan http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace#comment-45 Matt Donovan Fri, 07 Mar 2008 13:34:12 +0000 http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace/#comment-45 Sevyn = 7 ;) Thanks for sharing your story, Steve. Sevyn = 7 ;) Thanks for sharing your story, Steve.

]]> By: Steve Sensenig http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace#comment-44 Steve Sensenig Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:57:58 +0000 http://adoptivedads.org/adopting-sevyn-grace/#comment-44 Wow, I can totally relate to so much in this post. This past Monday was when we brought our little "Hope Giver" home permanently. She is 19 months old, so a little older than your Gracie, but there were other similarities -- living in the same foster home since just about birth (six days after birth in our case) so strong attachments there, feeling like we could just take her home earlier in the transition and she would be fine, loving being a father to a daughter... So your post was really familiar to me :) Our adoption was through social services, but we got really blessed very early on. We started training for foster/adoptive care last February, finished the licensing work and paperwork mid-summer, got officially licensed in September, and in October, we had our first experience with our little girl! We did respite care for her frequently during the process of waiting for her to be cleared for adoption. Anyway, thanks for sharing. Out of curiosity, is "Sevyn" pronounced like the number 7? Or is the second syllable accented (more like suh-VEEN)? Wow, I can totally relate to so much in this post. This past Monday was when we brought our little “Hope Giver” home permanently. She is 19 months old, so a little older than your Gracie, but there were other similarities — living in the same foster home since just about birth (six days after birth in our case) so strong attachments there, feeling like we could just take her home earlier in the transition and she would be fine, loving being a father to a daughter…

So your post was really familiar to me :) Our adoption was through social services, but we got really blessed very early on. We started training for foster/adoptive care last February, finished the licensing work and paperwork mid-summer, got officially licensed in September, and in October, we had our first experience with our little girl! We did respite care for her frequently during the process of waiting for her to be cleared for adoption.

Anyway, thanks for sharing. Out of curiosity, is “Sevyn” pronounced like the number 7? Or is the second syllable accented (more like suh-VEEN)?

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