Sally Bacchetta

Sally Bacchetta is an award-winning writer and sales trainer with over a decade of experience in medical writing, magazine journalism, and corporate communications.

Her articles have appeared in Computer Link, Country Business, FOCUS, Pharmaceutical Executive, Pharmaceutical Representative, and Phenomena magazines.

Feel free to contact me at info@theadoptiveparent.com with any questions or to inquire about book signings or speaking engagements.

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I Would Have Waited a Hundred Years For You

I Would Have Waited a Hundred Years for You is a tender, revealing look at adoption from the parent perspective. Whether you are an adoptive parent, an adopted child, someone considering adoption, or simply curious about adoption dynamics, I Would Have Waited a Hundred Years for You will touch your heart and increase your sensitivity to the challenges and joys that are unique to adoptive parenting.

While waiting to adopt our first child, my husband and I read several books about adoption from the adopted child's perspective and a few from the birth mother's point of view, but we didn't find any books that explored the adoptive parent's experience. The longer I parent, the more I realize that adoption is a profound and lasting experience for parents as well as their children.

My Pompei: Reflections on Being a New Adoptive Parent

I know exactly what I was doing when you were born, because it's still unfinished, just as I left it. My private Pompei.

I was cleaning my office. Not cleaning it, actually. On my way to organizing Important Things, I stumbled on the assorted This and That of the last several years, and meaning to spend only a few minutes visiting, looked up just in time to see the last light tiptoe from the room, having whittled the whole day away right from that spot.

The Adoptive Parent Primer

The same baby who sleeps peacefully slumped over a rock in 96-degree sunshine during a Blue Angels Air Show will awaken from a deep slumber in the middle of the night if you drop the cap to your toothpaste.

You cannot imagine the things you will extract, touch, sniff, sample, examine and discuss. You will do so without hesitation, and you will even save some of them. (I didn't believe it either.)

Whether you are wating for your child or have already brought them home, there are many resources available to you on your adoption journey.

Here are some of my favorites.