This past Friday, two days before "Mother's Day," I stopped into our local Hallmark to pick up some specials for my mom and my sister, and low and behold, I bought a new "Pink Teddy." :) hehehe Okay, so it isn't what you may think, but it sure is cute! I wanted to pick up a special teddy bear for my daughter so I could start sleeping with him every night. My plan is to then leave him with my daughter at the baby house while I am away so she can get used to my smell and remember me while I am away. :) I want to make her transition to our family as comfortable and least traumatic as possible. A while back while reading one of my adoption books it asked me to visualize myself as a child/baby, living what I knew to be my normal life, surrounded by my friends & caregivers, not knowing any different existed....and then one day a really nice lady came and adopted me, took me away from all that I knew, my routine, my friends, my caregivers, familiar smells & voices. How would I feel? I would be terrified, even though this person that took me was really nice and gave me new clothes, kisses & attention. She smelled different. I didn't understand her language. It would be traumatic to say the least. That thought completely impacted me. I guess that I would have never thought of just how scary it must be to be adopted as a child / toddler or even an infant. While I have been busy planning and preparing for this event for months, she likely had no advance preparation. I want to be very sensitive to that, thus my new "Pink Teddy." :)
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