[bromanchik]

One of the lines a lot of expectant/new parents, and adoptive parents, have gotten over the years is that spending time with your baby will only make you "attached" and that taking your baby home will only make it harder to relinquish.

My position and experience with a number of moms who took their children home, is that it was actually not as traumatic as being separated days after birth. My belief is that you cannot get more attached than an umbilical cord and abrupt separation is much more difficult than a gentle transition. Additionally, if adoption is the right decision at two days after the baby's birth it will still be the right decision at three weeks. If it's not, than the placement shouldn't have happened in the first place.

What do you think?