ERIC Number: ED160187
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1974
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Helping Love Grow: Some Hints for Mothering Your Adopted Baby. (Revised Edition).
Bumgarner, Norma Jane
This booklet presents child care guidelines for mothers of newly adopted children. Hints for getting acquainted with a baby and developing a close mother-child relationship are provided. Medical checkups, feedings, and physical displays of affection (touching) are emphasized. Also provided is information pertaining to special cases of adoption: if the child is a newborn, a toddler, or an older child; if the child has been in an institution or foster care; if the child is handicapped; and if the child is of another race. (CM)
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Affection, Child Care, Child Development, Fathers, Guidelines, Infants, Mother Attitudes, Mothers, Neonates, Nonverbal Communication, Parent Child Relationship, Preschool Children
Norma Jane Bumgarner, 1712 Lenox Drive, Norman, Oklahoma 73069 (Paper, $0.75)
Publication Type: Guides - General
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Language: English
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