By Michael Traister, MD Starting about 10 years ago, in response to the markedly increased numbers of children being adopted from abroad, a minor sub-specialty emerged in the field of pediatrics, pediatricians interested in adoptions, or “adoption pediatricians.” In 2000, The ...

By Shari DeGraff Stewart and Julia Fichtner Krahm Why don’t we speak up as active participants in our treatment?  We confuse the appropriateness of asking questions with the appropriateness of how to ask.  Let’s face it:  babies are magical and we can get magical ...

by Corey Whelan "Dealing with infertility after an abortion is fraught with complexities, surrounding feelings of guilt and  anxiety about whether one's last chance to have a baby may have been squandered.  Some patients feel that the pain of infertility is their divine, and ...

by Iris Waichler, MSW, LCSW  I was 42 years old when I started my infertility journey. My only treatment option was an egg donor.  My husband asked if it would be hard emotionally bonding with the baby we desperately hoped would come.  I had talked to others who expressed doubts ...

by Kevin Hoffman Below is a letter I recently wrote to my birth mother and below that is what I learned from writing it. ************** Dear Helen, I call you Helen because calling you mom just doesn’t feel right. On October 24, 2009, I found after 21 years of searching and then I lost ...

New York is my city.  It's easier for me to strut than to walk down the streets of Manhattan, it's impossible not to feel beautiful, looking at the lights of the Empire State, feeling the air, people watching, I just love it and nothing compares.  Nothing.  And last night The AFA ...

by Lisa Marsh, The AFA's London Correspondent No.3 in a series: Single fathers raising, caring for and talking to pre-teen daughters about her body As your daughter approaches puberty, changes are bubbling and brewing under her skin, waiting for a chance to erupt: pimples and breasts. ...

by Corey Whelan My daughter doesn't pick up after herself.  Those TV shows about hoarders scare the crap out of me because her room looks a little bit like that.  My son is much more meticulous. But sometimes, it's hard for us to find common ground in our conversations, that's just ...

This just happens to be one of my most frequently asked questions, and it’s a good one. Both are can be very important tests. Some women need only one, some both. In this blog you will see pictures and explanations. I enjoyed putting this blog together because I like taking things that are a ...

by Corey Whelan It is a mess in NYC right now.  Dirty snow piled everywhere and icy patches of melt freeze, melt freeze.  My daughter Caitlin has a nine block walk to the bus that gets her to school and I take that walk with her every day.  Yesterday it was a joke, the snow was ...