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Originally Posted by HappyTwinsMom
We've been talking about it since birth - our girls just turned 7 - and it's never been something they *didn't* know about themselves. When they were tiny babies, I would say things like "Mommy is so glad we got to adopt you and that C chose us to be your mommy and daddy."
I remember a time when the girls were about 3 and I was preparing a letter and pix to send to their birthmom. One of them asked me what I was doing and I said was sending pictures to their birthmom. She wanted to know what the word meant and I said "she had you and S in her tummy before Mommy and Daddy got to be mommy and daddy."
Basically, we've just had age-appropriate conversations as they come up. Nothing scary or deep or profound...just normal talk.
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That's the key for us - just make it part of normal conversation. We have always talked to DD3 about adoption and have read age appropriate adoption books. She loves Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born and has already asked to hear her adoption story and at this point, she can tell it herself!
We just adopted our second DD4 months so we have been talking about it a lot! Like HappyTwinsMom said, it's never been something we *didn't* talk about.