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Attachment disorder is a treatable condition in which individuals have difficulty trusting anyone or creating loving, lasting intimate relationships due to serious disruptions in forming that bond during early childhood. Adoption is one of these disruptions.
Bonding and attachment in adoption are the most fundamental issues in a successful adoption. Adopted infants, no matter what age when adopted, have experienced great stresses - separation, isolation, new environment, new sounds, grief, loneliness and fear and require extra attachment promoting care.
With the addition of hundreds of children adopted from institutional settings and from the foster care system, it is important for all of us to become educated regarding the potential and unique problems these children and their families encounter. It is by this understanding that we can move ahead and learn to help our families heal.
The close physical proximity that babywearing provides not only helps meet the infants need for security and reassurance it will also greatly enhance the bonding process. Wearing an adopted child in a sling or baby carrier can be instrumental in treating attachment disorder and form trusting and developing bonds within adoptive families.
Helps your baby to learn that they can trust that you will be there for them.
Helps foster a healthy attachment and assists in deepening the bond.
Assists parents in getting to know the child.
Nurtures the child during the transition into his/her new family.
Teaches the child that they are loved, cared for and very special.
Marianne Schmidt - Michigan, U.S.A
"My daughter is 3 yrs. old 28lbs. adopted from China at age 10 months. My older daughter's attachment therapist, Doris Landy, asked if I would test the Hug-a-bub for her. My 3 yr. old was reluctant to use the 'Hug' until she watched your demonstration tape of babies using the Hug. Once comfortable with it she instantly regressed to an infant and settled in. This was what we both needed due to her first 10 months in an institution followed our busy home with 2 sisters already calling on me for attention. Her response to abandonment and institutional care was to become fairly independent with little desire or need for a mother. She seemed to have missed the infant stage and went right into toddler. The primary therapeutic technique called Holding Therapy was helpful but the Hug brought us to a wonderful closeness that I last felt with my birth child as an infant. She relaxes in my arms with a bottle and falls asleep.
I use the Hug in the evening for her one and only bottle of the day. I hold her standing up, one shoulder strap off so her head is at my breast level. After the bottle I slip the strap up over my shoulder and rock her to sleep in the rocking chair. I made a videotape of our evening ritual for Doris Landry to be used at her lectures to Parents waiting to adopt children from China. I think it helped promote your product so look for further orders from Michigan, U.S.A.
Thank you so much for giving one child a chance to recapture a small part of her infancy lost by no fault of her own."
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