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Originally Posted by BestLight
My first adoption was a very positive experience, but my second (2 years apart) overwhelmed me and pushed me past "stressed." It took about a year to regain my footing.
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This is exactly how it was for me also. I had no idea what was happening to me because I didn't experience it with my first and I didn't know amom's could get this. I thought it was all me, that I couldn't cope with handling two children and no sleep and my baby boy being so demanding and not sleeping. I thought there was something really wrong with me.
Our bonding took longer too and I started to think that he resented me and he wanted his bmother, which made me feel even worst because now my son was rejecting me.
Now I know better, but when I was in the darkness and being an amom in which everyone thinks you should be so freaking happy and grateful and you've waited so long for this to happen, it makes you feel that you can't share your feelings with anyone. No one got it. It took my OBGYN doctor to connect the dots for me. What a relief to know it was a PADS and NOT me.
