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How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“she’d obviously been very well prepared by her foster carer and it was ‘Hi mum and dad, you’re late!’ ”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“By the time we left, they…we were only there for about an hour and…by the time we left, they were calling us mummy and daddy. Which we weren’t expecting at all.”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“They’d told me he liked football so I’d got him a football and he’d got me some flowers.”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“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. ”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“And then when we were leaving, both of them brought out their little toys that they’d had, which was the only thing they owned, and made us put them in the car so we would take them home to wait for them. They’d only just met us but then they thought ”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“ ...meeting someone who you had wanted to meet for so long, but not wanting to crowd his world ”
How do you tend to introduce a child to new parents?
“...so they start taking over the routine of the child during those introductions. There’s a review half way through to see how things are going and at that point a decision is made as to when would be an appropriate time for the child to move in.”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“it was… an odd experience ‘cause we’d seen her, we’d seen many pictures of her, but there, there she was in the flesh the first time. And… it was… it wasn’t difficult but it was quite odd as to what you do. It was like being introduced to…”
How do you tell a child they are going to be adopted?
“...if you are saying you are going to have a new mummy and daddy they expect it to happen tomorrow, so you have to be very careful about how you share information with children”
How was it when you first met your child/ren?
“And the questions got progressively deeper, and you were thinking OK so this is from a seven and eight year old and then came the jaw-dropping question, “Do you two sleep together?” ”