PrincessJenna
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Congratuations I'm glad you got your lo back he's absolutely gorgeous x
Wow. This would not happen in the UK. Adoption is a major piece of family law and not reversible. Once a child is adopted its done, for life. You don't get a month to change your mind and the adoption social workers would be highly unlikely to just return a prospective adoptee to mum without huge parenting assessments.
Hope it works out for you and LO ((((hugs))))
Dear Lily
I notice that everyone here who answered you are mums themselves. I am the woman on the other side, so to speak. The infertile woman who after so many struggles and losses has begun the long adoption process and reading your story I feel so terrible for the people who have you son at this point. Of course he is your son. I believe he will have a good life with you as with them. I hope you will consider it carefully but at the same time fast because I think the longer the adoptive parents have him the more they will be attached to him and the greater they will feel the loss.
I wish you all the best and congratulation on the amazing gift of life
Amber
I will start by saying I am glad you have your son back.
However I think how this was handled was wrong. First of all I don't think your mother should have encouraged you to seek out a couple to adopt your baby, I think she should have told you to wait till after the baby was born to see how you felt. Adoption shouldn't be an easy out, which it seem to be while u were pregnant but soon changed once you had him.
Could you imagine the heartbreak those adoptive parents feel? They have struggled with infertility for 7yrs and were then given the chance to finally be parents. They would have been filled with love and excitement, told family and friends, had their nursery all set up. Finally the day arrives and they are given a precious little boy, my gosh that moment would have been the best day of their lives and what they thought was their first day as a family.
Then days later he is taken from them, my lord I couldn't imagine their pain, not only struggling with infertility but to be given a child only to have it taken from them days later.
During the pregnancy you would have been asked a heap of times if you were sure this is what you wanted and you would have reassured them that it was, and longing for a child so badly they believed you.
I am not blaming you, for starters I think your mum should have encouraged you to wait till he was born, secondly adoptive parents shouldn't be chosen till after the 30 days has past, this way it could have avoided all this pain and heartache this couple must be feeling.
Congratulations on getting Shawn back, he is adorable. My heart still aches for the couple though, to be at home with a nursery all decorated but empty must be horrible. JMO