[blparent] Update on my daughter Ashlee

[Bernadetta]

Jess,
i'm so sorry you had to do that. However, you should be assured that 
you've made a choice that's in the best interest of the child. Assuming 
she's been with that family from the start, she already knows them as 
her own family. I am one who thinks that, rightful biological parents 
or not,  a child feels traumatized if he or she has to uproot and move 
to a different home, a different family, etc. after being somewhere 
forever.  She knows those people as mommy and daddy, and as tough as it 
must be  to surrender your parental rights, it might have hurt her more 
at this point to be taken away from her environment which she's known 
for her entire life.
I wish you the best of luck in everything. I can't even begin to 
imagine what it must be like to give up one's child like that...But 
good luck with everything, and we're all here for you, I'm sure.

Bernadetta