Married. 42. Birth mother.
How did it feel having your child taken into care?
“...the only contact I was to have was a letter once a year and no photographs and I wasn’t allowed any other contact with her. And I was gutted isn’t quite the word I would use,”
How did you overcome your loss?
“...it came to a point that I knew that I just had to keep going forward and I had to get on with my life and it was either a case of moving forward,”
Have you made contact with your birth child?
“I have letter contact once a year and this contact is via the post adoption box”
How is life after your child has gone in to care?
“...she’s there somewhere. I know she’s alive but she’s with another family.”
When did you start to have trouble looking after your child?
“my daughter wouldn’t stop crying and there was nothing I could do that would appease her and I threw her on to the bed, not very hard and slapped her accros her stomach, both which I shouldn’t have done and I felt really really bad”
“At the end of this visit I remember picking my daughter up, giving her a massive hug and I was crying, in fact crying isn’t the word I would use, I was sobbing and she just looked at me and she just threw her arms around me and hugged me ”
