It was the beginning of April 2014, 8 months after our first phone call to the Adoption Office. Nothing had …
Laura Boccaleone
Laura Boccaleone is the adoptive mum of a beautiful and extremely funny boy called Ben. Originally from Italy, she moved to the UK in the year 2000. After spending over 10 years working in the financial sector, she would have never imagined she’d become a full-time mum, and write about it on her blog. Her interests include adoption (for obvious reasons), child psychology, attachment theory, and child development. You can follow her on Twitter @lauraboccaleone and on Facebook.
I feel like screaming. I’m sitting here: upset, angry, sad, worried. My emotions are all over the place, I don’t …
Stage 1 run uneventfully for 2 months, and by Halloween 2014 we were officially in Stage 2. Our social worker …
Here I am. Awake. Struggling to fall in sleep, again. No one told me that when you have a child …
I’m surely not good at being mum yet, I’m still very new at the job. I had already my fair …
I almost changed my mind once during the adoption process, and now that Ben joined our family, I’m extremely glad …
For the social services, time run at a different pace, and I felt just like another name in a list …
I heard that for many people the adoption process is a long and draining period, a roller-coaster of emotions, setbacks, …