Tag: adoption
Heartbreak Stalked Us As We Struggled To Conceive – Then A...
Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to realize your dreams. You know it will be hard and you might wonder if it’s worth it...
Our Infertility Is Devastating – But It Means We Can Help...
Aaron and I had been married just over a year when we decided to start trying for a baby. Everyone told us to wait...
7 Of The Worst Things You Could Say To Adoptive Parents
Some years ago, one of my son’s schoolteachers learned she and her husband had successfully navigated an often-tortuous process and could become adoptive parents....
We Feared It Would Be Difficult To Adopt As A Same-Sex...
It’s a big thing for any couple to decide they want to be parents. To agree they’re committed enough and responsible enough to...
I Had To Adopt My Own Daughter – And Being Half...
It’s not often I talk about adopting my daughter, even though the day it became official was one of the best of my life....
We Care For Terminally Ill Children – Because They All Deserve...
Every baby, every child deserves to know love before they die. They deserve to be held, to know they are truly cared for, and...
Down Syndrome, Adoption, Seven Kids – They Weren’t In My Life...
If you’d told me 14 years ago that I’d have seven children, I wouldn’t have believed you. And if you’d said my future would...
The Adoption Scandal – How Some Parents Are Being Pressured To...
When a child is put up for adoption, we generally assume it’s because the parents had no other choice. The common belief...
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Is It OK to Drink Alcohol in Early Pregnancy?
For many of our mothers and grandmothers, the current prescriptive attitudes towards pregnancy may seem excessive. For example, until the early 1970s, drinking alcohol...
7 Wonderful Things I Did Before I Had Kids
Do you ever look back at those hazy days before the kids came along, when you could please yourselves? When life didn’t revolve around...
8 Ways To Speed Up Your Morning Routine
Aaah, mornings. That precious time of day when you find yourself hastily cramming a piece of toast in your mouth and slurping on a...
Curious Kids: Are Zombies Real?
Are zombies real? – James, aged 8, Sydney, Australia There are lots of TV shows about zombies. Most of them are for older people and...
‘I Want To Be Grandad!’ – What DO Children Call Their Grandparents?
“I am not being ‘Granny’,” my friend Anne said emphatically, on learning her son and his wife were expecting their first child. “Granny makes...
‘We Produced Wild Children’ – Parents Raising Brave Kids
I watch him play. At the foot of snow-covered hills, forests reaching behind, winter-weary fields rolling down to the water’s edge. The roar of the water...