Book 2: 2020

A tenderly written account of the emotional rollercoaster journey to motherhood through adoption.

From grief to hope, joy and the constant balance of how to celebrate the birth of a family through the loss of another.

Some beautiful quotes:

‘Are our children ever our own? My daughter feels very much mine, but she doesn’t belong to me - she belongs to a huge family of people. I am blessed with the ‘task’ of taking care of her and loving and supporting her forever but as she gets older I share her with more and more people and I am happy with that. I would like to share her with the whole world because she shines so bright’.

‘She is a part of me, of my nurture and very much of her nature. She is her own person and a person to be celebrated. I love every single piece of her and everybody that made her, I accept all that she is and all that she comes with’.

‘I wouldn’t change my infertility for the world, as without it I wouldn’t have met my girl’.

And finally:

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Khalil Gibran