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[quote=Anonymous]Our company culture likes to talk about their own children at break time among women. We ard small company. One late 20s married coworker just adopted a 9 year old girl. Our team were shocked because we all have heard that she never wants to have a kid. From my understanding, it is more her husband's wish of having a child and she removed her uterus in early 20s because she never wants to be a mother for whatever reasons. We congratulates her but I get the feeling from her that it seems she is feeling a bit awkward and weird to be called mom. She tells us that her husband is more the primary caregiver.

I am a mother of 3 ES kids. I have 1 son and 2 daughters. 2 other women in our team have MS/HS/college kids. I am trying to understand if I should treat her as a mom to talk about kids at office for chit chat from now on. Our office is small, so everyone can hear each other.  I do not want her to feel excluded but I have a gut feeling that she may not want to act like a real mom. Her husband seems to be more excited than her. She, her DH and the girl all are different races. I think I would never understand what a common mother - adopted daughter relationship feel like. [/quote]

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