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I am interested in responses to this as well. Our DD's birth parents have another daughter, and I don't even know what to call her...your "sister," your "birth sister," "x and y's daughter." (I need to figure out how DD's birth mom is handling this since she did not tell her family about DD so I would be surprised if she refers to DD to her child as "her sister.")
The other interesting thing is that I suspect birth parents may have another child/other children at some point that they will parent. I hope DD isn't too "upset" about the fact that she is the ONLY one that is not living with birth parents. I think the best you can do is just be honest and explain that circumstances are different all the time, birth parents certainly wanted to raise her but felt that they couldn't at that time, etc.
There is a really good book called, "Talking To Young Children About Adoption" that may have some advice, etc. Good luck! I hope that if your child's birth mom decides to place that she places the baby with you ...that would be really nice (that just happened for a friend of mine).
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