Its been a busy and interesting month for most of the adoption and fostering bloggers….not least because we had a big day this month: Mother’s Day. Its a day many of us looked forward to for a long time – years trying to have children or going through Approval and awaiting that match. When your [...]
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Adoption & Fostering: Contact & responsibility
This is my first round-up of 2013. Last month the very lovely Vicki at The Boy’s Behaviour guest-edited the round-up for me, which was wonderful to get a new pair of eyes on the Adoption and Fostering blogosphere. It was also great for me as I seem to be increasingly up to my eyes in [...]
Adoption & Fostering Round-up: Honesty, expectations & more
Happy New Year and welcome to the first Adoption and Fostering Round-Up of 2013. I’m Vicki and I blog over at The Boy’s Behaviour, where I write about my life as adoptive mum to Mini. Our usual lovely round-up editor Maryam has recently welcomed the latest addition to her family and as you can [...]
National Adoption Week, lifestory work and Morrisons
Read all the Adoption/Fostering Round-ups This month we had National Adoption Week (NAW) 5th-11th November. It’s a week devoted to raising adoption awareness and addressing misconceptions, spreading ideas and support. A lot of bloggers were very active and BAAF (British Association for Adoption and Fostering) who hosted the week, called for Adoption Champions – [...]
National Adoption Week: Rule yourself in! #NAW2012
This week is the 15th anniversary of National Adoption Week (#NAW2012). Run by the British Association for Adoption and Fostering or BAAF as it’s more commonly known, National Adoption Week seeks to raise awareness of adoption, and asks those who have ever considered adoption, even if just for a moment, to ‘rule themselves in’. There are [...]
Adoption and fostering round-up: Attachment, first time meetings and last goodbyes
Attachment. A very key word to any parent but not least for any adoptive parent or foster parent. Attachment forms the basis of the parent-child bond. It’s vital for developing a healthy relationship with the Caregiver and a healthy attachment with Mum or Dad will in turn help the child to form positive relationships [...]
Adoption & Fostering Round-up: Gay adoption & Mummy don’t go
This month I am delighted to say that I have found some new bloggers to feature, on this the third ever Adoption/Fostering round-up. September is here (boo hiss) and whilst many of us breathe a sigh of relief at the return of school, others are nervous and some of us a bit sad – [...]
Adoption/ Fostering round-up: Adoption perspectives, frustrations and love
Welcome to the 2nd Adoption/Fostering round-up. This month I have been pretty quiet on the blogging front myself but the upside of that is that I have had time to read and enjoy blog posts from the A/F community – thank you Twitter for making it so easy! My Favourites list is growing! I [...]
Adoption & Fostering Round-up: Introduction
Welcome to the very first Britmums Adoption & Fostering round-up! Firstly a little to introduce adoption and fostering. Fostering is how many children in the UK, those who can no longer live with their birth parents, for a variety of reasons, are cared for and parented in the UK. There are a large number of [...]
Adoption & Fostering Round-up: Coming soon
Sometime in 2009 my husband and I decided to adopt. We had wanted to start a family for a long time and well, to cut a long story short, it just wasn’t happening. So we approached an adoption agency to find out more. Two long years later and we are now adoptive parents to two [...]
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