Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illness. Show all posts
14 Feb 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...having to buy multi-vitamins to help stem the tide of colds and illnesses because of the poor diet you are on, which can only oh so slowly be tweaked because otherwise the children would flip - or have nothing to eat!
19 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...wishing your darling children weren't so literal in following your repeated requests to share, by sharing their germs with you month after month after month!
13 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...not knowing what to do when your child has a high temperature as you've never had to deal with that sort of thing before. Good job I have a 'hotline' to the grandparents, although I think they might change their number soon!
4 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...thinking that their birth parents got it wrong (maybe not all the time) and so there is additional pressure to get the parenting more right than they did. And then I get so engrossed in trying to get it so right (even thought I don't know what I'm doing half the time!) that I stress myself out so severely that I am doing myself more mental damage. I need to remember that I am me, that they are now in a safe place and my parenting skills need to be "good enough" not "perfect"
3 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...when all the kids sleep all the way through the night on one of those very rare occasions and the pair of you are up all night with coughs and colds - doh!
2 Jan 2011
31 Dec 2010
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...buying some or all of the following EVERY week: Calpol / kiddies cough mixture / ibuprofen for children / bongela / plasters / sudacrem.....
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...feeling guilty about sending a child to school or nursery dosed up with Calpol and when you pick them up they look ghastly and shouldn't have gone in
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...being diagnosed with secondary Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Bad enough until you realise that one or more of your kids must therefore be suffering from PTSD themselves.
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...finding out just how debilitating sleep deprivation is and understanding why it is used as a form of torture.
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