Sec.45a-728-5a. Prospective adoptive parents—permissible activities

(a) Prospective adoptive parents may: (1) participate in the labor and birth of the child identified for adoption; and (2) visit the newborn child, provided the birth mother, her physician and the child placing agency agree and, if such participation and visitation are consistent with the medically necessary procedures of the hospital.

(b) Prospective adoptive parents may be present at the discharge of the infant from the hospital with the approval of the child placing agency.

(c) Prospective adoptive parents shall receive either through the hospital, at the time of discharge, or through the child placing agency any nonidentifying information customarily provided to birth parents concerning the care, feeding, and health of the infant.

(d) Prospective adoptive parents shall be permitted to participate in any program of instructions regarding infant care and child development that is available through the licensed hospital to birth parents, provided the prospective adoptive parents pay the cost of participation in such program.

(Effective December 22, 1994)