When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome cover art

When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

By: Mary Evelyn Greene
Narrated by: Mary Beth Garber
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

When Rain Hurts is the story of one mother’s quest to find a magical path of healing and forgiveness for her son, a boy so damaged by the double whammy of prenatal alcohol abuse and the stark rigors of Russian orphanage life that he was feral by the time of his adoption at age three. Bizarre behaviors, irrational thoughts, and dangerous preoccupations were the norm - no amount of love, it turns out, can untangle the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.

More people are coping with and caring for those affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorders than individuals living with autism, but because there is a stigma associated with this preventable, devastating birth defect, it is a pandemic of disability and tragedy that remains underreported and underexplored. When Rain Hurts puts an unapologetic face to living and coping with this tragedy while doggedly searching for a more hopeful outcome for one beautiful, innocent, but damaged little boy.

©2013 Red Hen Press (P)2018 Red Hen Press Children's Health Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships Special need Health Adoption Alcohol

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Unsafe cover art
Through the Eyes of Hope cover art
Multiple Blessings cover art
Silent Tears cover art
I Want My Daddy cover art
Small Animals cover art
All the Things We Never Knew cover art
One of Us: A Family's Life with Autism cover art
Dream New Dreams cover art
Saving Ben cover art
Raising Ryland cover art
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Moms and Sons - 34 Stories about Raising Boys, Being a Sport, Grieving and Peace, and Single-Minded Devotion cover art
Undone cover art
Misconception cover art
Broken Glass: A Family's Journey Through Mental Illness cover art
Healing Emotional Wounds cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
Interesting to see the heart felt story of adopting a child with complex needs and how the family coped throughout.

Interesting personal tale of adoption and FASD

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was a brilliantly written and descriptive and raw account of the sheer love and struggle some wonderful people will endure to do goof in this world. The narration was unfortunately poor but still worth sticking with for the quality of the book.

Excellent informative book once used to hard going narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.