I met my adopted daughter and our dream family quickly turned into chaos

Fiona and Charlie had tried for five years to have a baby before they decided to adopt Vicki (Picture: Their Nibs)

Fiona Barber smiles tearfully as she remembers the day she met her adoptive daughter for the very first time.

Putting on a broad Yorkshire accent, Fiona describes how Vicki* threw open the front door of her Sheffield foster home in 2018 and said sweetly: ‘Hello Mummy and Daddy!’

Londoner Fiona and husband Charlie had been standing on the doorstep, ‘riddled with nerves’ about meeting four-year-old Vicki for the first time.

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