Sunday, March 05, 2006

Tummy mommy?

What the hell is a tummy mommy? And this quetion from a father "What would the male equivalent be? A dick daddy?"(quote from "birthmothers" Exploited by Adoption page on- http://exiledmothers.com) I wonder somedays what are people thinking? The answer I get is of course, they are thinking about the money to be made and making adoptive parents happy. I mean I understand all about correct adoption terms and how they are not for us, they are for aparents. It makes them feel better and all that, but what about us? How do you suppose we feel about this kind of crap? I have been doing some reading on other moms blogs and have found the same feelings there that I have about this. Is it any wonder that we mothers are so full of rage sometimes? I read my childs writings and feel her pain leap off the page at me. It makes my heart hurt, it breaks it over and over when I see her pain. I resent the fact that her family seems to think I am a "nothing" just a friend in her life. I resent it alot, I never would have thought that in asking to share in her life, there would be so much drama. I don't mean share her like she is an object, she is not. She is a human being, who can never be owned or shared as if she were a toy. So they bought and paid for her, and their joy was based on my pain. Seems to me that they forget that simple truth. My pain was the cause of their joy! So how do I get past my anger at the rejection? I have never said anything derogatory about her family, they love and have done their best for her all these years. Yet how can I not feel as if they are not thinking of her best interests? Because it seems to me that if they were this all would not be happening. I am not a "tummy monny" nor am I am a "birthmother". Those words negate me in a way I find hard to explain. I have three other children, and I know that I am nothing but their mother. It confuses me that others would see me as just a "birthmother" or a "tummy mommy" I am not an incubator, I am a mother who lost her child, who lives with the grief of that loss every single day. I have had this much on my mind lately. I can't seem to get it out of my head, the pain I feel is very real, the pain my child feels is very real, and we both need to learn to heal from these wounds. I am certain that the healing for her must be a bit harder, her mother also needs to heal from wounds she will not even acknowledge. It is what it is, and nothing I do now will change the past. All I can do is change my future.

5 comments:

HeatherRainbow said...

(((Mary)))

It's sad because it just makes it seem like it's about the adoptive parents, not about the person they adopted. It makes me angry too!

Unknown said...

I am so thankful I have friends like you that make me feel like I am not writing in vain.. I love you both...

HeatherRainbow said...

Yeah, as if to say, we are not forever.

It's like diamonds. You can't really buy the forever of marriage, neither can you replace a family, but they sure do try to sell to the highest bidder, and make people feel sooo insecure that they feel they need to pay for that object / label.

Attila the Mom said...

I believe the "Tummy Mummy" phrase came from Rosie O'Donnell.

She used to talk about her adoptive kids on her show, and told her oldest that God "meant" him to be hers, but just grew him in "the wrong tummy".

puke.

It's as insulting to first/birth/natural mothers as it is to most adoptees.

Unknown said...

Attila, nice to see you here. I totally agree. add me to your links if you would like..