What was the name of your (or your child's) baby book?
I am curious as to what kind of baby book you had, if you are an adoptee, or what kind your adopted child has. Is it hand-made, like a scrap book, or was it a pre-made baby book?
When did your book begin? Did your ap's just begin it when they got you, or did they "fill in the blanks" for that missing time between your birth & the day you were placed with them?
And, yes...it's the REAL me. I changed my picture because of the person who was impersonating me.
Thanks!
2009-09-17T18:01:58Z
eta: Because I did not specifically say "foster kids" in my question does NOT mean I don't care about foster kids. I have learned that most foster kids have life books. I have NEVER said that adoptees go through the same thing foster kids do. Not ever, and I have never seen anyone else do that either. I dont even answer questions about foster care, because I am not a foster parent. I DO believe it's best to have your own, if you cant & if you want to parent, ADOPT through foster care. Ultimately it would be best for ALL parents to have resources to parent their kids, but if they cannot, or will not, and have no one in their families to raise them, then I am ok with foster to adopt. Im sorry you feel that way, but I have NEVER seen anyone on this site say that adoptees go through the same thing.
H******2009-09-17T15:21:44Z
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Mine was called 'All About You' - a baby book designed specifically for adopted children. The first page is of 'how we looked when you first came home' and 'how you looked when you first came home with us' I was 3 months old.
I remember wondering where I'd been BEFORE that. At a very young age I realised that book wasn't 'all about me' at all. Chapter One was missing from the book! I spent the rest of my life searching out chapter one and this year I managed to fill in the missing pictures :)
Our youngest daughters baby book was premade and was given to us by very old friends on the night we went to the hospital and picked her up. It's started as of that day, when she was four days old, and the first thing in it was the parking slip from the hospital lot when we went down to meet the social worker and get the temp guardianship papers to bring her home. We filled it out from that day and added other photos and memorabilia till it was full at a year old. About the only difference was that the photos we put in it only showed the baby and the written info was directly related to her in the event that the adoption did not go through and her birth mother was able to work her plan so that the baby could have gone back to her. Once PGO was done and the adoption was in process we were more relaxed in what info was in there since the book would be staying with us.
I have a special baby book for internationally adopted children for my son. It has pages about his country of birth and other pages specifically for IA adoptees. That is where I keep teh only photo I have of my son and his mother when he was about 3 months old.
I also have a photo album with only pics of him with his foster family there, which covers him from day 3 of his life and on... (I sent a few disposable cameras for them to use for us.). The rest are just just regualar photo albums.
Mine is called "The First Seven Years" and it is a pre-made baby book specifically for adopted children. It has a place for birth information (length, weight, date, etc.) but it also has a place for adoptiom announcements (if applicable)
We were very lucky that my son's foster parents took lots of pictures! They also saved his hair from his first hair cut. They also had a picture of him when he was 2 days old still in the hospital (from the social worker)! We have all those pictures in the album. The album itself was made by my mother-in-law (his grandma). She made baby albums for all her grandchildren and when we started visiting our son she made his right the way. It is really cute. It just has ribbons, fabric, stars, the moon. We have pictures of his first steps, potty training, lots of baby pics (after 3 months old), etc... A picture of his foster parents with him is also in there. We showed a picture of his bio mom (the only one we have) to him and he said he didn't know who she was and told us he didn't want her in the album (long and sad story), so we decided to put her pic away along with all his CPS files for him to see it in the future if he decides to do that! We tried to fill all the "gaps" in his baby album. I hope we did a good job!