lhotard79@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> When I first posted to this group dh's friends' social worker with the
> state offered him a 3 week old baby and he told them about us. Anyway,
> we tried to work it so we could get approved to bring the baby in our
> home before we went through our training. It didn't work out then, but
> he was put in a foster home.
>
> Well, we finished our last training class, and are one home visit away
> from certification. The only reason we aren't finished is because our
> home development worker is booked up and won't be able to get to our
> house until May!
>
> Well, the baby, now 5 months is still available, and they are already
> working towards termination of parental rights. He has a cleft lip and
> palatte which will require several surgeries, but he will be fine after
> that. The baby is in a foster home that can not adopt it, so the
> social worker wants to move him to an adoptive resource home. She is
> trying to get approval from her supervisor.
>
> If it works out, we will first visit the baby a couple times at the
> foster parents' house so they can work with us on some of his special
> needs he has for now. If we both feel we can handle him, we will take
> him for a weekend, then another, and eventually he will live with us
> and we will adopt him.
>
> There is still a lot of uncertainty, so we are gonna just take it one
> day at a time.
>
> Lisa
Oh, Wow! How exciting for you and your husband. I hope all proceeds
well with this situation. Bummer about the homestudy being delayed.
There's no way they will expedite this situation? I wish you all the
best! Please keep us posted on how things are going for you.
lisa
micksmom
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