Creating a Family
Creating a Family: Talk about Adoption, Foster & Kinship Care
Are you thinking about adopting or fostering a child? Confused about all the options and wondering where to begin? Or are you an adoptive or foster parent or kinship caregiver trying to be the best parent possible to this precious child? This is the podcast for you! Every week, we interview leading experts for an hour, discussing the topics you care about in deciding whether to adopt/foster or how to be a better parent. This podcast is produced by www. CreatingaFamily.org . We are the national non-profit with the mission to strengthen and inspire adoptive, foster & kinship parents and the prof...
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Jul 11, 2026
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Episodes
Should You Go Abroad for Infertility Treatment? 28.05.2018 1:04:15
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Glen Cohen, Harvard professor and author of Patients With Passports: Medical Tourism, Law & Ethics. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www. CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us a re...
Preventing Mommy Burnout 23.05.2018 1:15:17
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Sheryl Ziegler, a Doctor of Psychology, Licensed Professional Counselor, and author of Mommy Burnout: How to Reclaim Your Life and Raise Healthier Children in the Process. Creating a Family has many free resources relat...
A Girlfriend's Guide to Infertility & Staying Happily Married 13.05.2018 1:02:07
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Kristen Magnacca, author of Love and Infertility and Girlfriend to Girlfriend: A Fertility Companion. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www. CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave us...
Questions You Must Ask When Choosing Donor Sperm 09.05.2018 1:10:35
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Jane Mattes, psychotherapist, founder of Single Mothers by Choice (SMC), and author of Single Mothers by Choice; and Mikki Morrisette, founder of Choice Moms; and Dr. Grace Centola, a nationally and internationally recogniz...
Talking with Young Children About Adoption & Birth Parents 02.05.2018 1:08:26
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Jennifer Bliss, PsyD, LCSW, & Director of Adoptions and Foster Care at Vista Del Mar and Family Services in LA, as well as Chantilly Wijayasinha MSW, MPH, and an adoption specialist at Adoptions and Foster Care at V...
What You Must Know about Zika and Other Diseases When Trying to Get Pregnant 25.04.2018 1:02:50
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Franasiak, a board certified Obstetrician Gynecologist, board certified Technical Supervisor in Embryology and Andrology, and lead physician of RMA’s South Jersey – Marlton Office. Creating a Family has many free resour...
Impact of Loss on Foster Kids and Foster Parents 11.04.2018 1:16:52
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Karen Buckwalter, Director of Program Strategies, at Chaddock, a Residential Treatment and Trauma & Attachment Center, and author of Attachment Theory in Action: Building Connections Between Children and Parents. Creati...
What Happens in an Embryology Lab & Why You Should Care 11.04.2018 1:06:22
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews two embryologist about what happens in the fertility clinic lab and why this makes a difference in successCreating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www. CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave ...
Unique Challenges of Kinship Care and Adoption 03.04.2018 1:07:33
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Sylvie de Toledo, the founder of Grandparents As Parents and co-author of Grandparents As Parents: A Survival Guide For Raising A Second Family and Cate Hawk, founding Director of NewFound Families-Virginia. Creating a Fam...
First 6 Months with an Opiate Exposed Baby 28.03.2018 1:06:20
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Hendree Jones, Ph. D., who is the Executive Director at UNC Horizons, and Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC Ev...
Eating to Improve Your Fertility 14.03.2018 1:04:13
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Kathryn Flynn is the author of Cooking for Fertility and the Founder of Fertile Foods.com. Since 2005, she has worked with men and women to improve their fertility diet and support their chances of conceiving. Creating a F...
Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) 08.02.2018 58:06
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Marcy Maguire, reproductive endocrinologist at RMA New Jersey and clinical professor of reproductive endocrinology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this top...
PCOS: A Natural Approach to Health 08.02.2018 1:01:00
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Hillary Wright and Dr. Sunita Kulshrestha. Hillary Wright is a registered dietitian and Director of Nutrition Counseling for the Domar Center for Mind Body Health at Boston IVF and author of The PCOS Diet Plan: A Natural Approa...
Physical & Emotional Health Issues Common with Foster Kids 07.02.2018 1:08:29
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Elizabeth Wallis, an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The Medical University of South Carolina, the Director of their Foster Care Support Clinic and the Division of Adolescent Medicine. Creating a Family has many fr...
Primary Ovarian Insufficiency 07.02.2018 1:00:33
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Timothy Hickman, Medical Director and Co-Founder of Houston IVF, and Clinical Associate Professor the University of Texas Medical School-Houston and Baylor College of Medicine. Creating a Family has many free resources...
Supporting Families After They Adopt 06.02.2018 1:05:04
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Debra S. Waller, Chief Executive Officer, Jockey International, Inc. and founder of Jockey Being Family Foundation; Rita Soronen, President and CEO of Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption; and Susan Cox, Vice President of Public...
Practical Guide for Adopting a Child Over Four 06.02.2018 1:01:24
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews the authors of Adopting Older Children: A Practical Guide to Adopting and Parenting Kids Over Age Four. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at www. CreatingaFamily.org. Please leave u...
Impact of Fertility Treatment on Sexual Health 31.01.2018 1:08:56
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. Jody Madeira, a professor at Indiana University-Bloomington, an expert on law and medicine and bioethics,a researcher on the impact of fertility treatment on sexual health, and the author of Taking Baby Steps: How Pati...
Becoming a Foster Parent: What You Really Need to Know 24.01.2018 1:20:44
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Irene Clements who has been a foster parent for over 27 years, fostered 127 kids, adopted 4 and is the Executive Director of the National Foster Parent Association. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this...
Adoption Tax Credit 2017 10.01.2018 1:04:56
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Josh Kroll, Adoption Subsidy Resource Center coordinator at NACAC; and Becky Wilmoth, an Enrolled Agent and Adoption Tax Credit Specialist. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our website at...
Can Yoga, Acupuncture & Nutrition Make You More Fertile? 03.01.2018 59:47
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Beth Heller, a yoga teacher, a nutritionist, co-founder of Pulling Down the Moon Integrative Care for Infertility, and co-author of the book Fully Fertile. Creating a Family has many free resources related to this topic on our...
More Than One Way to Resolve Your Infertility 20.12.2017 1:09:14
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews five women who chose different paths to resolve their infertility. 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. Clic...
International Adoption 101 13.12.2017 1:07:29
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Rebecca Leaming regarding the fundamentals of international 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. S...
Combining Kids by Birth and Adoption 06.12.2017 1:10:28
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Exec. Director of Creating a Family, the national adoption & infertility education and support nonprofit, interviews Dr. David Brodzinsky, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and former Director of Foster Care Counseling Project at Rutgers University, and author of the seminal book Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self. Creating a Family h...
Step-Parent Adoption 29.11.2017 1:03:14
Drop us some Fan Mail. Thanks! Host Dawn Davenport, Executive Director of Creating a Family, the national infertility & adoption education and support nonprofit, interviews Will Waller, Program Director at Jockey Being Family Foundation, and Dr. Susan Branco, Licensed Professional Counselor and Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Training at the Chicago School of Professional Psycholo...
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