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Did You Know: 

Growth spurts can start as early as 10 days after your baby’s birth.  Growth spurts usually are preceded by a sleepy, lethargic day and a big jump in appetite.  Growth spurts may happen again at 3, 6, and 12 weeks and again at 4 and 6 months.  If you begin to notice that your child is not as satisfied with the amount that you have been feeding her previously, then she may be beginning a growth spurt period.  If you are breastfeeding, you may want to add a feeding or two to satiate your baby’s appetite and to help increase milk production.

Power Tools : Grief And Loss

Foster Parenting And Grief:

by Ron Huxley, LMFT

There is no grief like the grief that does not speak."
-- Longfellow

Foster parents are faced with an ongoing series of grief: accepting a new child into their home, learning to adapt to the personalities and needs of that child, developing feelings of affection and love for that child, and the risk losing the child if their biological parents succeed in reunification or if someone chooses to adopt the child. Adoptive and foster parents are not immune to feelings of grief. They struggle with the realization that they are not, and never will meet societies idea of a traditional family. They must also deal with the personal realization that the child they care about is not their own (unless they chose to adopt the child) and the child may be forced to return to the same or further traumatic circumstances.

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