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

So for instance I was adopted and my kids got taken by CPS and are with hubby's brother. Anyways CPS contacted my adopted mom (who isn't related to me at all) they said she's maternal grandmother but is she though? I'm my own guardian and I didn't sign a release of information can they legally contact her? They told...

How long from applying did it take for you to receive your child benefit! also if you added them onto an existing claim do you think that made it quicker? Will I probably just wait until next child benefit is due next month to receive anything?

Has anyone collected colostrum from 37 weeks and gone over due date?

Surely, if your kids are vaxed, they're protected?? Not hating on anyone, just genuinely curious.

Is anyone struggling with collecting colostrum? I am 39 weeks tomorrow and have been trying for just over a week and am getting nothing. Any tips? Anyone had it take time like this?

Am I going overboard for having these types of boundaries? I’m creating them based off of what happened with my first child. There’s more to the list as well 16 total

Soon to be a new mummy Very proud moment 36 plus 4 days Just harvestered for the 1st time and managed to fill a whole syringe 💉😀

Do you need god parents for a catholic baptism? We are choosing to get our baby baptised as catholic, I'm catholic and my partner is Protestant, he wouldn't be religious though meanwhile I'm not very religious but have faith. My partners family would be the type they wouldn't step in a Catholic Church so wondering i...

I look after my son (18 months) full time and have no help from family or anyone. There is no nursery in our town for under 3s. I am considering a childminder for one afternoon a week, but my concern is safeguarding from abuse. I feel a bit uncomfortable blindly trusting another adult - even if they seem really love...

For those of you that have had ‘the first grandchild’ anyone got any tips for dealing with smothering parents (the grandparents) who are meeting your baby for the first time? My mother is rather opinionated and shes ‘always right’, my dad is a constant worrier who in turn rings me 3-4 times a day, regardless if i an...

Is it worth putting dad on birth certificate for child maintenance ?

See option: 1) You gentle parent and grew up with gentle parenting 2) You gentle parent but didn't grow up with gentle parenting 3) You don't gentle parent but grew up with gentle parenting 4) You don't gentle parent and didn't grow up with gentle parenting

We are evaluating moving back to home state to have more support in our life. A few years ago we went no contact with my in laws & moved out of state due to work. Since we have reconciled because we want the best for our first child. But there was no apology and the family dynamic remains the same. Have anyone e...

"How Trump Came to Enforce a Practice of Separating Migrant Families - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/family-separation-trump.html

Did your family understand that when your newborn cried, to give him back to you so you could feed/soothe him? Or did they just try and do it themselves? And think they just need to be bounced rather than fed?

Having my egg collection on Monday, anyone else in the same boat?

Any luck finding Kendamil? I have one can left and I’m getting a little nervous. I really don’t want to switch her 😩

TW : After being in this group reading some of you guys post, l have came to the realization that I may have one of the world's best baby father and I need ways to show him hm I appreciate him (FOR THE BARE MINIMUM) because your stories is literally like coming out of lifetime or the maury show and I just wanna say...

Hi all. We had a beautiful girl in Feb 2023. I really want to expand our family and for our little girl to have a sibling. However I wanted to hear people’s stories on the transition between 1 to 2. I had awful postnatal anxiety/depression with my girl. Not due to having her but the situation. We have no support a...

Honestly, I don’t understand this! People who live off benefits some of them committing some level of benefit fraud, lying that they are single, when they have husbands who work full time and getting benefits for their kids and for housing, and they choose not to work to take care of their kids and then they even go...