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

I am on day 12 of stims and I want to cry. I am so over this. I went for 11 days last time. Although this time I have a toddler (via ivf) and I am 5 years older but I am beat. I feel like the first time I was more excited then I am this time around. I came home from work early today because I was so uncomfortable. T...

Has anyone adopted a baby or a child here? I would love to grow our family and adopt a child since there is so many children without a loving family. How long did it take and how has it been?

How much do donor eggs cost? I am in the US

Does anyone have the owlet sock please and know how it works when out and about and don’t have the base?

Hey girls, I have just my FET 5 days blastocyst 5AA today. The embryologist was really positive! My dad passed away suddenly in October 2023 and I think about him every single day and today was his birthday . I feel like it’s a sign that they did the transfer today it might bring me good Luck and on the 17th is ...

I now know these were topics that should’ve been discussed prior to marriage but I’m curious to hear how convos went if boundaries were set , in relation to bm or visits with kids . Discipline . How things can change if a new child is born . How that would affect holidays if step kid isn’t around etc

Any parenting book recommendations? Thanks in advanced x

Found out I'm due my second baby in December. My first was born December 2023. I need positive stories of having 2 children so close together. My son is so attached to me, I'm scared about the separation this may cause between us.

Wondering if others relate. Born and raised Brit who was raised to be hard working and as such, have a high level of education, a good job and an ok standard of living. Due to this, pay 40% tax and have high student loan payments . Since having a baby and going back to work, all my salary is going on either rent or...

Trying to express concerns and get advice from peers or other women or parents to revive a response of “just wait till… they are here, till they find their voice, till they are walking, till they are a teen”

I’ve just listened to the ‘Oh Crap’ podcast episode about Tiny Dictators and had the realisation we’ve just been doing everything wrong and I feel so bad for my daughter cause it’s not her fault. I don’t even know how to go about correcting things or where to even start 🤷🏻‍♀️. Has anyone got experience of putting…

Has anyone used progesterone tablets that you insert, up there haha i used pio in my last transfers and I really think I would rather do the pio instead of having stuff leak out all day long. Sounds so gross.

Anyone watched the documentary on Prime? Really wanna hear people’s opinions on that adoptive Dad Michael.

So my baby daddies aren’t really in the picture for the kids they don’t pay child support or anything but I’ve let them see the kids whenever they want to my family hates them both and wants me to take the kids away and not let there dads see them but both are not on birth certificate or really check up on the kids ...

This is so unfair and cruel y'all. Some strangers can have total control over MY OWN kids !! Some strangers can decide what they believe is BEST for MY OWN KID . I just don't agree with this and it's fucked up. Laws need to change ASAP. I need some help fighting this.

Hey all, I’m having my first FET on the 14/04 day 6 blastocyst, I’m so worried and happy at the same time. I’m taking Progynova and now need to start 2 Cyclogest pessaries at day as well. They told me I will have to wait 11 days for pregnancy test after the transfer. They are doing the transfer on the 24th day of my...

So I got thinking from what I've seem and heard from story's about how some parents doing the same thing as their own parents did even if it was the best then some are flipping the switch and breaking the cycle and doing it how they wanted their parents to be more like so how do you think your doing it like your p...

Has anyone thought they were gonna have their baby adopted and the month before had a change of heart?

I read something from someone that stated how the woman felt uncomfortable trying to dive more into her husband’s culture and what not and her main focus was what her kids look like and the color of their skin / eyes etc etc … like seriously having mixed children can’t just consist of that type of stupidity and igno...

so my dad is a born and raised australian and i think that would make it easier for me to get citizenship? they never applied me for dual citizenship in my childhood or anything which obviously would have made it SIGNIFICANTLY easier but now as an older woman with a child (who is ready to leave amercia for her s...