Adoption

I’ve been a teacher for years, so have spent my life around children. But I’d never had a baby. Then, 3 weeks before I turned 60, one of my friends – Karen – said to me “Isn’t it so sad about that little baby being taken away from her parents?” And she told me a

Our adoption journey took over twelve years, ending up in Nanjing, China. Meeting Finn for the first time was overwhelming for all of us. He was 19 months old, just old enough to feel shocked and confused, but too young to understand everything that was happening. We spent a couple of weeks in China together,

We decided to start a family in 2000, but life didn’t go according to plan. I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy. In 2003 we turned to IVF. For the first few cycles I was working a lot, and renovating our home. Looking back that wasn’t an ideal set of circumstances. In the end, we had