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Information from Sherrie Cramer (mother of Katie Cramer who desperately needs a bone marrow donor) on Bone Marrow Registry

Submitted by LisaS on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 08:50
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(Follow up to this blog.)

The following information is copied from this blog.  

Thank you to all of the families who have contacted me regarding having your child who was adopted from China tested as a possible match for Katie! As many of you are aware, it is quite possible for our children to have a sibling who has also been adopted. Also, one thing I learned by my trip to China, many of our children who possibly come from rural families are quite underrepresented on the current bone marrow registries around the world, including China’s registry (CMDP).

I pray that none of your children will ever need to have a transplant; however, if this should ever befall your family or any other child/person who has been adopted from China, your act of having this typing done can be of great assistance to that person.

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have been told that the strong desire of a young person (generally over 12 years of age) to be a donor will usually trump any ethical considerations to limit those under age 18 of being a donor. This age limit is not set because of restrictions on being able to be a donor – doctors can perform a transplant with a donor as young as 6 months of age – but is done for legal reasons only.

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Hump Day Hippie: Safe Needle Disposal at Home

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 02:33
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Each year more than three billion needles, syringes, lancets, sometimes called sharps are used in private homes to treat medical conditionsaccording to the EPA. Conditions such as diabetes, Growth Hormone deficiency, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, Allergies, and Migraines are just a few of those medical conditions. But how are these families disposing of their sharps? Are they placing others at risk by using unsafe disposal procedures?

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Hump Day Hippie: True Green Multi-Purpose Copy Paper

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Wed, 06/16/2010 - 18:20
  • Copy Paper from Sugar Cane
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  • Resources
  • Saving Forest

We ordered our first bundle of “100-percent treeless” paper this week from one of our favorite “Green” online stores, Alice.com. I didn’t have a clue what our new paper was actually made of, but figured I would find out when it arrived. Although Julie C couldn’t wait and Googled it for me right away. The package also says the paper is 100-percent biodegradable. The paper is made from Sugar cane. It is hypo-allergenic, unscented, and the white paper does not contain dyes. To make you feel even better about buying this truegreen paper, it is priced similar to copy paper made from trees.

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Hump Day Hippie: Reduce Container Use for Laundry Products and Go Green

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Wed, 06/09/2010 - 22:53
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  • Resources
  • Using Concentrated Laundry Products

Ourlandfills are filling up fast with garbage that can take hundreds of years or more to decompose. Americans generate millions of tons of trash, and most is carted off for landfill burial. Numerous landfills across the U.S. continue to close each year because they are filled to capacity with garbage from our disposable-happy society. If something doesn’t change soon, Americans will run out of spaces to cram their waste. According to the EPA each American creates about 4.5 pounds of garbage a day, up from about 2.7 pounds a day in 1960. But can one person make a difference? Yes, you can. Begin buying highly concentrated laundry products today to reduce container size and usage. Go Green!

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National Guard Youth Challenge Academy for Challenging and At-Risk 15 to 18 year olds

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Tue, 05/25/2010 - 22:56
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  • Teens
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If you can’t afford residential treatment for your troubled teenager you are not alone. Most of us cannot and it seems impossible in most states to get either private insurance or adoption subsidy to pay for it. Nobody seems to care that your home and family members may be in danger. That is why I am so excited to tell you about this FREE program that I just learned about, even though they have already had 17,000 graduates. Apparently it is one of the best kept secrets in the country. They lack funding, so they cannot advertise, therefore you can only find out by word of mouth, or a lucky web search. Not every state is lucky enough to have a National Guard Youth Challenge Academy. In fact, ours in Michigan almost got cut in December with budget cuts. Instead, they received half funding, so they can take 115 students instead of 250. The Michigan Youth Challenge Academy has a 70-percent success rate for students graduating and then going on to work jobs and pay taxes. If that doesn’t sound awesome to you, take another look at what it takes to qualify for acceptance to the program.

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Guest Blog: Blog for Mothers Placing Babies for Adoption

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Thu, 05/06/2010 - 23:55
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6 months pregnant

Tina Tyra has been a facilitator since 1991, with a background in the medical and legal fields before that. While working in Labor and Delivery for 5 years, she was trained as a neo-natal bereavement counselor. Having had her own pregnancy losses - including a late term fetal demise - she felt compelled to help families cope with the aftermath of losing a baby. She now believes that this was no accident. This experience has helped her to understand the aching empty arms of a birth mother and the grief of a family who has suffered the loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, or potential child due to infertility. Dr. Suess said it best..."A person is a person -- no matter how small". A woman who gives birth, whether in her heart or with her body, is no less a mother.

The agency wanted to have a place where birth mothers could go to air their feelings, share thoughts about placing, and fears. They felt that birth mothers should have a safe place to vent about anything and everything related to their placements or adoption plans.

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Remember That May Is National Foster Care Month

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 20:31
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May is National Foster Care Month. The U.S. Foster care system urgently needs people to support the kids who have experienced abuse and neglect who live in foster care. Foster Club has 31 challenges for you to check out and try to accomplish. The most current federal AFCARS data indicates that over 500,000 children reside in the U.S. foster care system. Most of those children, 40-percent, are between the ages of 13 and 21. Teenagers are the least likely to be adopted and most likely to age out of foster care without a plan of support and without family safety network to fall back on. They can end up homeless, causing them to live risky lifestyles, and some feel forced to commit crimes to survive

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How to Tuesday: How to Change a Diaper Without Wipes

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Tue, 05/04/2010 - 21:17
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Manufacturers are always coming up with new products to make baby care easier, more efficient, and more fulfilling. I speak from experience, having been parenting infants for 27 years now. Unfortunately, those who have only parented in the current decade, may not be aware of the “old ways.” That of course, causes a near emergency when they run out of a particular baby product, take diaper wipes for an example. A former foster child called me quite upset, she was out of wipes. How was she ever going to change her daughter’s diaper? Could I run some over to her house so she could thoroughly clean her daughter’s butt? Instead I told her what we used to do, “back in the old days.”

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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Diaries: Adopted FASD Child You Better CYA

Submitted by JuliaFuller on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 20:35
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If you have adopted a child with FASD, FAE, FAS, or a familial history of mental illness, you need to CYA from day one. Some children seem unaffected by prenatal exposure to drugs and/or alcohol. If that describes your adopted child consider yourself fortunate. However, if your child, like so many other FAS children has learning disabilities, lies and steals without showing real remorse get proof. If repeated disciplinary measures do not modify your child’s behavior get proof. If your adopted child does not seem to learn from mistakes but consistently makes the same bad choices then you need help, don’t wait. While therapy and counseling do not seem to help modify behavior with FAS children, you need mental health professionals to protect you and your family. If you do not want your child on medication, that is your choice, but take your child to see a psychiatrist on a regular basis anyway. Are you offered in-home mental health services, take them, and keep them until your adopted child graduates from high school and moves out. Do you think that because your child came home as an infant you do not need to worry, think again. Do you think that because you raised your child in a religious home, and your child attends private school, you do not need to worry, think again, and CYA..

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GUEST BLOG: Ways for Adoptees to Search for Their Biological Parents

Submitted by LisaS on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 17:39
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  • Adoptee rights
  • Adoptees
  • Birth mothers
  • Birth parents
  • Birth siblings
  • finding your birthparents
  • Open Adoption
  • Resources
  • Search and reunion
  • Talking about adoption

Special thanks to Marjorie for preparing this list for our readers.

Some of our readers are adoptees who have found their birth parents, others are not and are searching. I asked one of our guest bloggers, Marjorie, to prepare a list of how to go about searching for birth parents. If you have any other suggestions please post them in the comment section below this blog or send me an email at lisas@ouradopt.com.  At Adoption Under One Roof we feel it is essential to offer help to all members of the adoption triad and to share any information we have. To those of you who are searching, good luck.

In getting started, you will first need to know your biological parents first and last names. While browsing the Internet for locating people just simply insert their names and if you know what city or state they reside in the information will come very handy. Making contact with your natural parents is likely to be time-consuming but it's not likely to be time wasted.

Then:

1. Join every search registry you can

2. Find out in what state or country you were born ..what hospital if you can as the birth records are there.

3. Find out the adoption agency from which you were adopted and see if they have any information for you or ways to search.

4. Adoptees Liberty Movement (ALMA) is very helpful.

5. Get a copy of your Adoption Decree if you can as it states the name of your biological mother on it in many instances

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