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Originally Posted by gdaisy
What about those cases where the birth mother choose a closed adoption and we have no pictures of her? My son is beginning to understand that he is different and we have read books about adoption... What would you do?
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I can answer this one. My now 17 yo is from a closed adoption, no pictures, etc. We never focused on that aspect when he was little. It was always in the context of "Oh, look at the pictures in your baby book! There's Mom-Mom and Grandma on the day we adopted you! There's mommy holding you when we first met you" and so on...
And of course, we have the hilarious "the day we adopted you" stories too...especially the part when we locked the rental car keys in the trunk, which did NOT have a latch inside the car to open it. And many, many stories of the first two weeks when we lived in a hotel in another state waiting to go home, with our then 10 month old. Pictures, too.
Just start the story from where you came into it, including the time leading up to it. You can deal with the other details as the child becomes old enough to understand more.
Robin