I am 26 and my husband is 34. We have been trying to have children for 6 years, and happily have chosen to adopt a waiting child. We are in the beginning stages of everything, and I am full of all kinds of emotions. I don't know if some of them are the right kinds to have. My heart doubles in size when I think of becoming a mother. But then it shrinks when I think about how the child might not feel like I am his/her mother. I want them to see me as mom. Do the older children ever feel that way?

Thanks to anyone who can help!!