Did My First Mother Love Me?: A Story for an Adopted Child

by Kathryn Ann Miller

Book Overview

This book addresses the needs of adopted children who feel the pain of having lost their birthparents. Written by an actual birthmother who gave up her child, the book tells adopted children that their birthparents loved them but could not care for them. The book speaks of the sacrifice and love involved in placing a child in another home, in terms that even small children can understand. For parents, the book also includes an article by Jeanne Warren...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0930934849
• ISBN13: 9780930934842
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Morning Glory Press, Incorporated
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 3 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Motherly Love

Special way to show your adopted child that their birth mother cared enough to find a forever family for their bio child. It helps children understand that love can be shown in different ways.

I am a birthmother

I am a birthmother whom order this book for my daughter whom I placed in a open adoption. This book helped me so much plus the author invites you change words to make it more personal for you or the adopted child. Good for birthmothers adopt children.

just what adoptive parents need

this book is short and to the point. very touching, without being sappy. i wish there were a boy's version as well, but we can ad-lib with what is here.

Answers cries

This book addresses the needs of adopted children who feel the pain of having lost their birthparents. They may "miss" them--which is really an expression of loss. Written by an actual birthmother who gave up her child, the book tells adopted children that their birthparents loved them but could not care for them. The book speaks of the sacrifice and love involved in placing a child in another home, in terms that even small children "get." For parents, the book also includes an article by Jeanne Warren Lindsay, "Talking with your Child about Adoption." It explains key points that parents should make when talking with their adopted children--they were born like everyone else, being adopted is normal and natural and it's forever. And of course, their birthparents did not "abandon" them, but loved them in the best way they could. Alyssa A. Lappen

A Story for an Adopted Child

Presents a best-case scenario for adoption; may not be appropriate for all adopted children,