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Originally Posted By Jeanne

Does anyone have any info or experience with FAE in a child they adopted? We are considering a child with h/o maternal alcohol abuse and need more info.

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Originally Posted By Sue

Jeanne,

My husband and I adopted a daughter from Korea recently and she was considered "High Risk" for FAE due to amounts of alcohol consumed by her birthmom. However, we had the medicals reveiwed by a doctor in Ann Arbor, Dr. Jenista and she is COMPLETELY healthy!

There are issues that our son adopted from Russia may have in regards to FAE. We had NO information about his birthmom or her pregnancy so we were very in the dark. But he is also very healthy. The biggest issue we are dealing with is possible hyper-activity from our son. But learning so much about it early in his life is helping us identify possible issue in his future.

I would look up FAE on the web. There are some wonderfully informative sites to go to. Good luck

Sue