Pediatrician Michel Cohen, M.D. offers some practical medical advice for adoptive parents in this online article. The article is especially helpful for parents adopting children from other countries, but the advice is applicable for any adoptive parents.

"In terms of medication or nutrition, there's not much you should bring with you to the happy occasion of meeting your child. No matter where in the world the adoption process takes you, while you're there, you should feed her the same formula that she's used to. If she's older, join her in eating the local food she knows until you come home...”

The article goes on to give advice regarding when to schedule the first medical check-up, how best to continue with immunization shots and more.

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