Dealing with Post-Infant Adoption Depression

You can go through a wide range of emotions in the process of adopting a child, especially an infant — from excitement to frustration to anxiety to elation. While waiting for a child to be legally your own, you tend to build up a fantasy of how you envision your new life with your newly – adopted baby. But when that moment arrives, one usually becomes overwhelmed with the emotional adjustments that need to be made and end up feeling detached from the child rather than feel a sense of closeness. This typically results in feelings of guilt and even

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