Making a difference...One Starfish at a time

Our family started fostering back in 2005. We have been blessed to love on many babies. There has been many twists and turns throughout our journey and in December of 2010 we were called for placement of a newborn baby boy. His biological mother worked a case plan for 18 months and after 23 months she surrendered her rights and we adopted 'Sprout' in December of 2012. Our faith has been tried and tested and we are still certain that God is faithful!

August 18, 2011

The home finder called late last night to tell me that the baby will not be moved to our home because they couldn't find enough reason to move her.  I'll let you be the judge...

*Diagnosed failure to thrive
*Baby is on her way home, parents are working the case plan.
*Foster parents give the bio parents the baby and her feeding tube is clogged.
*When confronted about the clogged tube, foster dad blows a gasket and the supervisor of the agency is called.
*He gives little reason as to why the baby isn't properly taken care of.
*Bio parents complain that their daughter isn't being taken care of.
*I was told that the foster parents have complained and argued with higher ups since day one.

Baby girl spends alot of time with bios and will be going home on trial early next month.  Her special need is failure to thrive with a feeding tube.  Not sure how they could NOT move her but what do YOU think!?!?!?

3 comments:

Teresa said...

FRUSTRATING! I wonder how some of these people even get certified. Poor baby girl...

aka. Mimi said...

"Failure to thrive" while IN CARE, and they're NOT moving her or investigating the home??? I can definitely understand her bios' frustration, that's for sure! It sounds like this is a case of the agency not wanting to deal with the additional paperwork associated with a move when she is moving home in a few weeks. Praying she is safe and taken care of in the meantime. :(

MamaFoster said...

if she is failing to thrive while in foster care they need to try something else...i don't want to blame people who might be innocent tho