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Here is my story:
I adopted a sibling group of 4 last year. THey were all 1month to 4 years old. Their Bmom or Bdad never visited them before their rights were terminated. The Bfather relinguished his rights and we had an agreement that I would send pictures of the children and later he decided he did not want them. My issue or problem is actually with the Bmother...... She never went to court...she would not show up. When my baby was 3 weeks old she left him outside in a parking lot at 10:30 at night and a man later found him. She was convicted of a crime due to abandoning her son. Since the adoption of my 4 children she had another baby in August which I now have. She relinguished her rights and we have an agreement only with the new baby that I would send her pictures and letters. Here is my problem. She took the agreement so she could write to the other children and not the baby. I sent her a letter stating that I could not keep any letters she wrote to the children unless she included the new baby in her letters. I told her that I had to look out for the best interest of all my children. She responded in a letter stating that the baby was "different" from the other 4. She said she loved the 4 but not the baby. She said she didn't love the father of the baby and loved the father of the 4 and therefore did not love the baby. She said she wants pictures of all the kids except the baby. Our agreement is only with the baby reguarding pictures. I know she loves the kids except for the baby and it hurts me so much....how could she not love her. Here is my question.....What do I do? Do I keep the letters eventhough the baby is never mentioned? And if I keep them what would I tell my baby when she is older about why her mother never mentioned her?I want to do the right thing. I am a christian and want to do the right thing for the Bmom and the children. They have a new life but 20 years from now I don't want to have any regrets.
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Hi.. I am not a birthmom.. but your sotry touched me.. if it were me.. I would keep the letters.. while I know it might be hard to explain to the baby in years to come.. it will be just as hard to explain to the other kids why you did not save letters ment for them..
As far as the pictures go.. I would send pictures of all the kids.. you never know.. maybe over time she will come to the love the baby and start to include her?
If you ask her not to send any letters you may end up missing out on more..
good luck..
Mandy
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This is hard for me to really understand. She left her baby alone ...he could have died! If I don't keep the letters and let this die with me as my secret is that wrong? I mean this is a closed adoption. I have an agreement to send her picture that she doesn't even want! I guess I'm not willing to send her pictures of the other children at least right now. I hope and pray that I do the right thing. Tell me why you think she deserves pictures of the other children? Convince me!
I hope someone explains to her, that her baby didn't pick who the father would be and the baby does not deserve to be punished for something it had no control over. She chose the bio father unless she was raped. I know I should have just kept this comment to myself but I was attacked and how cruel that would be for me to have blamed my baby, for something she didn't do. Sorry................. I'll shut up now.......
The Bmom is in prison for abandoning her son. She never wrote to me untill she was in prison. She told me she did crack when the baby was concieved. She told me that she wanted to abort the baby but that the prison would not let her. She never held the baby or saw the baby after birth. I have had the baby since the hospital. She does ask me for advise on the baby and how to deal with this. I have mixed feeling...somedays I feel for this mom and other day I am mad as heck. Remember I am with my 5 young children everyday. I love them.....and I expect her and everyone else to also. I know I'm not the Bmom so when Bmom's read this...some may think I am cold and heartless...... and that may be true, but I'm trying to do the right thing. All non triad people tell me ...walk away from this, but part of me just can't do that. I thank you for your advice even if it is hard for me to hear.
I know this is kind of an older topic now but I'll reply anyway. I am a bmom, and I have 4 children that I am raising... I suggest you keep the letters.
Your children will know you love and care for them, even your baby will know that. You didn't choose this woman to be the bmom of your children but she is. The odds that they are going to try to contact her when they are 18 are pretty high. If not all of them, at least one of them. The situation might come out then. *sigh* I think since you are their parent now you most certainly have to do what you feel is right for your children, including your baby.... but not throwing the letters away -- at least for some time, might give you a chance to really see how the relationships between your family and the bmom are going to work out.
I do think you should send pictures of all the children, including the baby. One hopes that when she matures she will come to realize they are all her bchildren and really look out for their best interest and not single out the baby in hate.
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