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!

April 6, 2015

Bonding...

Little Mighty started Unsupervised visits with his bio mom and dad. I have seen many red flags with his behavior and his attitude in general but there is nothing that he is doing that would stop visits from being unsupervised.  The bios have told the case worker that they fed him then when he has come home he has eaten an entire sandwich, a jar of fruit and drank 3/4 sippy cup of milk.  When I tell him no or take something from him he throws THE BIGGEST tantrums.  I am very concerned about his ability to bond.  I can tell he KNOWS who we are but his ability to make good eye contact and his lack of wanting to be held scares me.  He will be 17 months old later this month.  He is a very smiley boy so trying to convince the agency worker that I am concerned makes me seem crazy but the county worker agrees that the degree of abuse and neglect he has suffered can definitely make him a candidate for some type of Reactive Attachment Disorder.  The county that he is placed through is a county WELL KNOWN for reuniting children and their parents even though that are severe bonding concerns with him and his bios.  The agency worker told me that when she picked him up today after his visit that he was in an exersaucer.  He was only there for an hour and no one was holding him...so sad.  I assume there are still concerns for Winter (baby sister) and Bailey but no one has mentioned that anything has happened with the girls in a while.  The agency worker also mentioned that last week when she 'forgot' to pick up Little Mighty after a 2 hour visit bio mom was calling her cell phone asking when she was coming to pick him up.  You'd think she'd love more time with the  son she says she desperately wants home.