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Hello. Congrats on your adoption path.
I brought my son home at the beginning of July. He turned 3 at the end of August. And I changed his name.
I adopted from an Eastern European country that has a very short stay. I had him in-country for a day and a half before we boarded a plane to come home.
From the minute I hit U.S. soil, I called him by his new name. I moved his birth first name to his middle name, but I never called him by it. After 6 months, he doesn't recognize it.
It really didn't take him long to recognize his new name. After a couple weeks, maybe a month he called himself by his new name.
Although my son was in an orphanage, who knows exactly how often he was called by his name.
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