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Glad to be of help!
Happy to hear you've never considered breastfeeding an adopted baby. Yuck.
I'm glad you don't use the crying-out-method. That's just cruel to babies who already have had to use it a lot before they joined the adopted family.
The terms "first mother", "natural mother" apply to the biological mother, so you're right. Those terms make the mother more real, rather than a nameless figure in the child's life. No matter how far away the aparents take the child from their mother, no matter how much the aparent diminish her existence in the kid's life, she STILL IS that child's mother. Want to do the best for your akid? Treat their natural mother with respect.
In general, I'm fine with co-sleeping as long as it doesn't damper the parent's relationship. I know in the U.S., it's common practice for the baby to be in another room, connected by baby monitors. But I'm sure in other countries, especially poor countries, it's common to have the baby/child sleeping in the same room.
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