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Foxy Mum of The Year Nominee Curt69
My daughter Courtney was the one who entered me in Foxys Mum Of The Year competition. I dont really see myself as a special Mum, more the same as everyone else really. I did adopt my sisters baby and look after her from four days old. But then I couldnt leave her to go to someone else.
It is strange taking a baby home from hospital when youve not given birth to it yourself, but I never felt like Chloe wasnt mine. I bonded with her just the same as my others, Courtney now 10, Eliot 8 and Lauren, 6.
It was pretty clear my sister Carla wouldnt have been able to look after her daughter. Social services were even at the hospital, ready to intervene if I hadnt. My mother was already looking after Carlas first son Aydyn, now 14, because Carla wasnt able to. So when we found out she was pregnant again, from a one-night stand, I knew we would have to get involved.
Once I heard Carlas news, I went to see her every day with a hot dinner to make sure she ate at least one healthy meal a day. If it was up to her she would barely have eaten at all. She weighs around 5 stone normally so we had to keep her weight up for the babys sake. She didnt seem to care.
At nine months pregnant she decided she was a lesbian and was completely disinterested in having her baby. When she finally gave birth, Carla never picked her daughter up once and would refuse to feed her. The nurses gave up in the end, would just wait for me to get there.
My mother was beside herself. Ill never forget seeing her sat in the hospital sobbing and asking, What is going to happen to this baby?
And after four days, my sister got out of bed, strolled out of the hospital with a cigarette in her mouth and as if nothing had happened, left her daughter behind.
Which is how I came to ring my husband Kristian and tell him I was bringing a baby home.
Oh my god, whose? he asked stunned and shocked. But as soon as I walked through the door with Chloe, Kristian beamed and took her from me. She was the size of his hand. I knew at that moment that we would love her as our own.
With a brood of three already, I had been sterilized when we took Chloe, because we hadnt wanted more. I wouldnt be without any of them now of course and we love them all the same. A few weeks after we took Chloe, we adopted her so she would have the same name as the rest of us. But Ill never hide the truth from her either. Shes a bit young to know at the moment, but if she ever wants to go and see her mother, I will take her.
Carla sometimes walks past us in the street, but she doesnt even pass a glance. I dont know what it is that makes someone like that. Shes always been a bit of an oddball I guess. But its very sad. All we can do now is give Chloe a good home and do our best for her.
Last year, after twelve years, Kristian and I decided to marry. It was supposed to rain that day, but it turned out beautiful. All the kids were there. It was perfect. A day that bonded all the special people in my life, a day that made us an official family.
