Adoption Experience

“So, we looked into the possibilities of adoption and when we started actually going through the process we’d – we actually decided that that was the best solution. That was exactly what we wanted. And actually almost became a preference, didn’t it f”

“She’d sat there saying ‘what if they don’t like us?’, ‘what if they don’t want us?’, and, and it was lovely to be able to share that conversation that, that we had felt exactly the same way too. ”

“ And they wanted all see their bedrooms and see everything. And we’d, we’d also taken time to bring some of their things with us so that in their bedroom they had their… their teddies and their toys and some clothes and things like that so that th”

“...we’ve really, always wanted to have a big family and having brothers and sisters was important to us. Interestingly enough, having four children it meant that the… the power balance in our, in our house to begin with was… had changed because ther”

“they don’t feel like somebody else’s children. They’re our children.”

“It’s also a direct way for the children to be reassured that their birth mother is still well, and equally for her to see the children are still being fed.”

“And our adopted son sat there one afternoon and he just said ‘Dya know, it’s all about trust, isn’t it? This is all about trust and getting to know each other’. And we were just completely gob smacked by that…”

“‘Oh wow, so we’ll be like normal children’, and it suddenly dawned, dawned on me that our children didn’t feel at that point that they were like all the other children because normal children don’t have a social worker and don’t have to have a”