Community Posts, Tips & Support on Adoption, Fostering & Surrogacy

Good luck everyone. I’m no longer in the wait as AF made her arrival 😭😭😭

I’ve just found out I’m having a boy after a girl and i am partly excited and partly apprehensive. I don’t have any males in my family and with my first baby girl it felt so natural. This time round I don’t know what to expect! I think I wanted to replicate what I had with my first baby girl but now I know this expe...

I'm getting more worried every day about helping my daughter get used to having a sibling. She will be 20 months old when #2 arrives. She's quite the needy sensitive baby and I'm feeling really overwhelmed. Except for acknowledging her feelings I don't have a whole lot of ideas to ease the transition. What are you a...

What would be your biggest advice or tips? I’m nervous for my first born. I feel like he’s going to be upset w me when I bring home his baby brother.

Can father file birth certificate without mother ? Me and her dad are separating after only 5 weeks of her being in this world so we didn’t file the certificate yet and now he took it , I’m terrified

Ok so this is like an hours collection- anyone else struggling?

I’m taking my son away with my mum next month and was planning on taking his birth certificate with me as we don’t have the same surname. Would it also be worth getting my ex to write a letter of consent to say he’s allowed the holiday to happen or would the certificate be enough? One of my colleagues took her da...

My husband and I have been together since 2018, just got married earlier this year. I have a 9 year old that hasn't seen her dad since she was 1. My husband and I have talked about him adopting her. Her bio dad is on the certificate. Has anyone gone through this? I don't know if it varies by county or just state. Do...

So my daughter is 3, and i haven't been with her sprem donor since she was 8 or 9 weeks old. His mother made him stay away from her till they got a dna tha5 isnt liable in court i mind you and at first they seen her all the time over time they started to see uer less or make up excuses on why they couldnt come the v...

How dose one step mom have a good relationship with the kids? I've tried everything with them from playing games with them to spending one on one time with both of them, and I'm still getting hate and attitude from them.

So my family keeps asking what I’m doing for my birthday this year and I keep telling them nothing since my son should be here and I need to focus on him. They say I shouldn’t start neglecting myself for the baby. What would you do?

I don’t have anything to my name no car, no apartment, no job, no $ & no baby father.. accidents happens I would have never brought a baby on purpose into this world knowing i don’t have anything good for her, I know I know people gone say I shouldn’t have laid down either but I did now this is happening.. I use to...

Just had my first egg retrieval yesterday! Would love to hear stats on how many of your fertilized eggs made it to day 5 blasts. Here are my results: -Retrieved: 24 -Mature: 17 -Fertilized: 13

Has anyone done any KIT days yet? I'm feeling a bit guilty for asking for them so early. I just feel summer is around the corner and we have no real money to enjoy doing anything. Also feeling like this time away from my LO might help me transition better when I go back fully.

These next couple weeks gonna be sooooo hard to resist. We hot and ready like little ceasars pizza 😫I be almost ready to give in but I got 4-5 more weeks of healing 😫. When is a good time to give in ?

Our baby boy was born at 34 weeks and has spent the past 3 weeks at NICU and is being discharged today. On the day he was born my in-laws were asking when they could see him! We decided for let them visit in NICU that day to help settle their itch and to give us space. Roll on to today and they have asked when they ...

I feel at times people are so ready to call the other parent narcissist and claim they are a high conflict parent when In reality they aren’t. Don’t get me wrong yes, there are for sure some crazy people out there others have to coparent with. Even ones who are physically and emotionally abusive. But I see at ti...

Please tell me we are not the only ones that hadn't done their last will and have no legal guardian for their child. I keep telling my partner we need to sort it out but it's like talking to a wall 🤦 Can people who have it sorted tell me how difficult it is? Is it lots of paperwork? And is it expensive?

So I fucked up my daughters birth certificate and now I don’t know what to do. On my first child’s I never put my birth name just my name now which was changed completely when I was legally adopted. On this one I accidentally did and now I have a feeling it’s going to be a huge pain because I’ll have to bring that p...

Anyone else harvesting their colostrum? Now I’m due to be induced on Monday, I’ve upped my game loll. I managed to get over 0.9 in one sitting tonight 😮‍💨 very proud of myself 😂 just had to share somewhere lol. If you’ve been trying and hardly got any, don’t give up! Mine started as a very thick sap-like…