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

Not my MIL but my adoptive parents. I’m 21 years old. My age is the reason I think this is happening. Context. I was doing fine until I moved in with my parents. They offered me to stay in one of their homes as they have many and I said yes. I was doing fine on my own with my little family and they convinced me to m...

Me and my baby daddy no longer speak, my baby is 2 weeks old and I’d like to get him registered however I was told that the father needed to be there if we’re not married. Is there anyway this can happen without him?

Can you trust a MAN or WOMAN who does not take care of their child(ren) Examples include: -Allowing the primary caregiver to raise the child but NOT sending financial support or spending at least 20% ( of the week) around the child doing parenting duty's -face time children or calling, . Keeping promises to child...

This time of year can hit really hard. I have no family. My husbands parents have been passed for a while. I never had a dad growing up and my mum lives far away and I’m not really in contact with her. So we have no where to go and no one to host at Christmas time. This was the same growing up as a kid. I hate it an...

Like someone you dread even holding your baby. I’m trying to think if I’m ready but I’m literally so protective abt my baby right now

Were you gentle parented, and do you gentle parent?

A kid on the playground was pushing my son. My son came over and told me “a black kid was pushing him.” It felt wrong that my son was using only the kids race to identify him. I wouldn’t like someone to identify me just by my race or approach a problem where I was described by my skin tone first. Am I wrong for thin...

Me and my husband are in our mid-30s and just starting our family with a babe due in April. I have two siblings, one of which has three babes ranging from 8 years old to 4 years. Both of my husband’s siblings have 2 kids, ranging from 4 years to 1 year old. We’ve both been super involved in our nieces and nephews li...

Do you last all day with it? Do you ever raise your voice after gentle parenting doesn’t work? Curious..asking for a friend

Here we go again. So excited and very nervous about how to manage two. Any tips gratefully received xxx

34 weeks pregnant and feeling like baby may come early.. I would really like to put some boundaries in place for when baby is born such as i only want my partner in the hospital and i would like atleast a week untill visitors come to see baby.. maybe even longer depending on how i feel. my partner has no issue wit...

Am I allowed runny eggs? I love them but heard you can’t then heard you can aslong as it has the red lion on it. Can’t remember from my first pregnancy, still got baby brain 😩🤦🏼‍♀️🤣

Hi! I’m curious to hear your all experience, I am finally doing my first transfer after three retrievals and they mentioned I have a small cyst. They told me to not worry because if hormones come back ok, everything moved forward. Is there anything else I should ask about this? Anyone gone through this experience? T...

So I had my second daughter in October. I am white British and my husband is 50:50 mixed African and white. Our first daughter is very dark and our second is very pale. My husband is worrying that everyone will think either she is adopted or I cheated! I tried to explain the genetics but he won’t listen! Any advice?...

Those who don’t have kids who say they could never have only one child need to stfu 🫢 Have one and then come back to me. OR EVEN BETTER have one by accident, low income, traumatic birth/pregnancy and THEN come back to me 🥰

I am 35 years old and had my eggs retrieved today. Initially I had 13 eggs but according to the doctor only 6 are good quality. Would 6 be a good number?

My son is 17 months old and my husband is ready for a second one. I’m a little nervous. I love my son so much but becoming a mother has been one of the hardest transitions for me. It was hard on me mentally and physically. I would like to have a second kid so that my first born can have a friend and sibling. That is...

This is the most I've gotten in one session so far. I'm feeling pretty proud!! Has anyone else started collecting?

Just wanted to see different views about this question. We live very far from family and have done all the parenting on our own. It has been exhausting and childcare so unaffordable that we know we can never have another child. We do dream about "oh wouldn't it be wonderful if we had some help, even if it was just o...

Had my first FET on the 12th, Anyone else currently in the 2ww. X