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

Anyone started collecting yet ? First try today and just managed to get 1.0 ml 🙂

I’ve just finished a 3 month residential assessment and we failed. I don’t know how to feel now they’re going to take my baby away. I want him to call me mama and to see him crawling and walking 😭

Hey mums, I'm curious to know what people do when giving birth to a second child when they have no family or friends to mind their first child/children? Does the husband just not attend the birth?

Hey ladies, excuse my language, but how the hell do you co parent with an ass hole? 😊

Does your baby dad tell people that you don’t allow him to see his child?

I’m posting incognito as I keep seeing all these women asking questions for support (as we should) and they get opinions opposed to help or assistance. For example, seeing parents asking about weaning advice prior to 6M. And the comments will be people slamming about how the LO isn’t 6M & should wait. Why commen...

Anyone willing to share their experiences regarding adopting a child when you already have bio kids? We personally don't know anyone who has made this kind of transition and we're currently discussing our options. Posting anonymous cause I know people irl on here and we have not gone public with this

I notice it’s making me really having to improve with my ppl pleasing tendency’s, having to communicate, set boundaries and also it’s making me notice that I don’t seem to self soothe the best mentally.

Hi there Please can I ask what your thoughts are on raising kids in the UK? Is there anywhere else you’d like to raise them? I’m a dual citizen of UK and Australia and I’m So torn with what to do.

Y’all I’m still waiting on mine and I filed on Jan 4th 😩

Starting two week wait. Terrified and so excited. Who else has similar timing and starting or started two week wait recently?

Hi everyone so I considered some months back about adoption for my unborn baby, due to the dv situation with my kids father and me being in a shelter. Well I got into a program that’ll cover my rent up to two years. They’ve also been helping me look for apartments and gave me a case worker and my kids really want to...

I love my kids. I would die for them, kill for them, they will have my unconditional love, no matter what. I feel like I don’t like being a parent. Is this normal? Does anybody else feel like this

This app has so many horrible stories about men, it’s got me a bit worried about raising a boy. Surely the mothers of a lot of these men did the best they could so why are SOME so awful (society, biology ?!). Luckily, the best man i know is my husband and the father of my 5 month old son but i still worry. Any tips ...

What did you do with your disrespectful, disobedient Kids when they weren’t respecting the rules in your house and being unappreciative of all that you do as a single mother? Send them to live with their father? Or family Or?

What I mean by that is pregnancy and parenting. I'm 14, and pregnant. I haven't even got to highschool yet and I am so scared. I don't know what I'm going to do, it's incredibly hard right now and the baby isn't even here, let alone when she is here, great goodness.

Thing is, this time round I'm going to be a mum to a toddler and a newborn.. if youre a parent that believes in the no kissing where do you stand with your toddler kissing the baby? Yes or no?? And what's your reasoning? Idk what to do with this one

I have decided to stop learning about my dna and my ancient ancestors ect. Mainly because: 1: Dads side of the family is not helpful at all so I don’t know what to do as far as my dads side of the family goes and knowing more about his side. 2: starting to believe that Dnagenics,yourdnaportal,adntro, mytrueance...

Anyone have any advice for my next frozen transfer. Won’t be due for a couple of months but eager to get others experience of navigating an under active thyroid on 75mcg Levothyroxine. Last fresh transfer failed to implant and keen to find out if this is the cause etc.

I'm considering fostering as I'd love to help a child who needs a family and also, I've always wanted a big family but don't want to go through pregnancy and childbirth again. My husband isn't up for it because he wouldn't be able to handle losing that child after getting connected and feeling like they're a part...