Our main expense was taking unpaid leave for appointments, visits etc. I do think there should be more financial support for prospective adopters

Good grief! Your trout pout is so so obvious 😮

I really want to adopt a child but living in two bedroom house with two kids and husband. So can't apply for adoption as we need a separate room for adopted child.

Just beautiful and so much love.... Norm is not always the best. This was the best story and the outcome was great. Everyone had Steven and no Riley ❤❣️

Ive gone through the same experience in terms of having a terrible and traumatic pregnancy and birth. This video has given me so much positivity about adopting and helped me be confident in choosing to adopt because of my experience.

Don't you care about how little man's parents might feel? Some parents just need support, but have not had any. The majority of adopted children look for their family in the future.

Thank you so much for putting this up. Some people are concerned something will happen our existing child. Someone mentioned biting. Glad to see a positive outcome. 😊

Hi Molly. Regarding adoption order, do you know if that applies the same timing for the international adoptions. Thank you

Hi Molly Mamma. We are quite similar to yourself as we have a biological daughter and we would like a Sibling for hour. She will be three and a half by the time matching comes round. I was just wondering if it's working out well etc .❤

Hi Molly, thank you for the wonderful videos you make. I few of my friends have been asking about books they could read to their little ones to explain that we will be having a new child in our lives. Do you have any recommendations of books you shared with friends to help them inform their children about adoption? Thanks again!!

Ce buze senzuale ai❤

We had a ceremonial adoption hearing at the court and our child was present. Aged 5. Never been a "secret".

I got so emotional listening can i ask which agency you went with?

Lovely, short and powerful ❤

Just found your channel and we are going through stage 2 at the moment this is amazing thank you so much for sharing!

Do they ask to see your bank statements? X

Hi molly i have two daughters in adoption myself my question is what if they dont want to met when they turn 18 or if one child dose but the other child is not ready

Thank you for this video. My SIL is in the process of adopting and we’re so excited for the future additions to our family. We want to support her and her husband as much as possible and having your video as a resource is so useful.

Hi Molly, thanks so much, super helpful. How old was your son when he went to nursery?

Just found your channel and I’m so glad. Thank you 😊 Relating to one of your points, have you found that others think they’re “experts” on adoption, including comments like “you need to get them as young as possible to prevent them being traumatized” and other gems? They always say it with so much authority too and there’s always a horror story floating around of “a friend of a friend” to warn you about the life wrecking decision you’re about to make? I’m in Stage 1 and it’s driving me mad at the moment. I’m going to only share with a super small number of people now moving forward. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Your process sounds really straight forward, you got yes all the way, you're young and already had a biological child. Unfortunately, that's not me ☹️ The circumstances I find myself in is adoption or nothing and the process, although I understand why it needs to be the way it is, sounds far too complicated and stressful. I can't handle anymore heartbreak in my life so I guess the idea of being a parent will have to be scraped, which is awful because my husband and I would be awesome parents 😞💔

Can someone still adopt a child in the uk, if they themselves have recently changed their own surname..??

Very useful thank you. Do you know if theres a list of Additional Needs somewhere that doesnt require you to be part of Link Builder? Just so we can get a heads start? Possibly starting the approval process in a few months.

Although I've always wanted to adopt. Ive only just starting looking into futher details(not planning to do so for at least 3yr). Can anyone recommend youtube chanels (plz only inc ones that don't show the child online).

What’s the first step and please share any contact number to start the process with

I love how you share your experience as parents but don't expose your child and his story! We've just started the doption journey, thanks for the good tips and info I've been getting from your videos, it's taken some pressure away!

What a wonderful story, Me and my brother were both adopted when I was 5 years old and he was 4. It steered our lives away from disaster and now at the age of 26 I am looking to adopt with my soon to be wife in future. I love my adoptive parents, I don't view them and never have any differently as if they had given birth to me themselves. My biological mother was bipolar schizophrenic, and my biological father was only 22 years old at the time social services stepped in..My mother stopped showing to planned meeting sessions after just one meeting, I never saw her again. I recently connected with my biological father for the first time not long ago, and I doubt we will ever have a deep relationship, but it has been eye opening for me to meet with him and hear his side of the story, allowing me to fill in a lot of blanks. I think it also provided him some closure, we will continue to talk in future. My advice to any parent looking to adopt, would be the following: 1. Never lie to try to mislead your children about their past or the fact they are adopted (of course you can drip feed more intense detail as they get older, when you feel they can handle it) but not doing this robs a child of their sense of identity and will inevitably backfire on you as they grow older. 2. Make sure unconditional love is at the center of your parenting, not trying to mold or control, but doing what is in their best interest while not forcing. 3. Protect, protect protect... unfortunately I was subjected to a great deal of abuse, including sexual abuse before my adoption and after my adoption by two different males, if you are coming from abuse as a child you are likely easy pickings for future abusers (Also I am male, do not let your guard down about these kinds of things just because you have a boy). 4. And finally accept you aren't going to get it right 100% of the time, but always do your best, your children will grow to not only love you as a parent but appreciate you for what you have done, this in my opinion is a level of respect and appreciation that is not possible to achieve even with your own biological children.

Well done for keeping foster carers in his life. We fostered 2 boys for 2 years and their adopters said that we were going to be such a big part in their future they felt they were adopting us too. Of course we passed this on to the boys as they were very upset to be moving on from us. We haven't seen them once. Two years have passed now and it has broken me and my wife. She told us after a few months not to even send them gifts on their birthdays or Christmas. Card only. She won't even reply to our messages as to how they are doing. I hate to think what damage this may do. Losing parents and then never seeing foster carers. How will they trust the world. It's affected us so badly that we will never foster again. Well done to you though

Thank you for sharing this! 🫶🏽

Thank you so much for the information! We are starting our process tonight with an event webinar!

Can you tell me have you had a specific criteria for gender please? We would like a little girl aged between 1 and max 4. Do you think SW can accepts our criteria?

Lying sod

You are very lovely and genuine couple

Molly can I ask you how did he react the first days of placement, was he crying? Or was accepting to the change? Please tell me

Hi Molly we will be in transition in 2 weeks

No questions from me, just wanted to say your videos have been so so helpful thank you. I can sense your caring nature and empathy 100%. You are doing a fantastic job😊

Hi. Your videos are really appreciated 🙏🏼 I want to ask you, when does the adoption leave starts, when the child is placed at new home, or earlier during the adoption process. Thank you

You sound so sweet. I am sure you are a great mom. Regards

I’m 44 year old and have 2 grown my biological sons 21 and 15 year olds. I really want to adopt a girl and it was always my dream to have more children and a daughter. Now my biological children are very independent I have a lot of time and love to give to another child I had depression in the past and had treatments with my GP for a few years and I’m worried this can potentially be a problem for me adopting a child. I don’t mind an older child, in fact I’m not very keen on a baby bur on a toddler or pre schooler. I also would consider siblings, I’m financially very stable and my job is flexible as I work from home. I’m going to start my adoption process soon, please wish me luck

Amazing video, we have found the baby for us and his social worker approved of us so we are taking the next steps for transitions and I’m going to use all your ideas coz they are genius

Hi Molly, thanks for sharing this ! It’s really interesting to hear your experiences and to hear about the contact training. I wish they did this for the birth family. I was raised by my grandparents and have 3 young sisters adopted at birth I didn’t know existed. They’re now old enough that they’ve started contacting me (but are still under 18) and I’ve found it extremely hard as there are no resources/guidance about contact written from the birth sibling perspective. My partner and I are actually going through the adoption process and are now trying to raise awareness of how there should be support groups/training for birth families outside just the birth parents

Thank you for this video it is most helpful to me. There really isn’t much about on this topic and this was explained in a really understandable way. I really like the suggestions of tv programmes and will check them out. Going to matching panel and wanted to prepare for questions on this and so hard to do that. Will check out your over posts too

Just randomly came across this video and it was SO helpful, thank you!!

Love these ideas x

wow. I got emotional. Thanks for sharing

Brilliant Molly 👏 👏

Do you have a list of podcasts that Sam listened to? I'm in a similar position as a prospective father of an adopted child. Being able to take in some extra knowledge during my comunte would be amazing.

But it’s forced adoption children are being stolen

Sorry silly question: what is vet references? All I can think of are veterinarians.

What about when older sibling got adopted but all younger ones stayed with birth family so, siblings are separated. I know this happens. How you feel about said child missing out on contact and relationship with their birth/blood related siblings ?