[jenniem]

Hi guys,

I am one of the fortunate souls to have been encouraged by Natalie. I remember seeing her post about attachment issues and knew I needed some help. I sent out an SOS from GC on our pickup trip.

We were reunited with our son on his 7 mos birthday. We didn't have a honeymoon period. 10 min after his foster mom left he threw the biggest grieving fit- hitting, pinching, face raking, screaming, vomiting for hours. It was so hard. This was the day I had been dreaming about for so long and it was horrible. It was a bit hard not to feel rejected. I had read alot about attachment and remembered what to do, but it was still challenging.

Anyway, I wanted to tell you that we've only been home a month and things are already so much better. The hitting, pinching, etc stopped about 1.5 weeks ago. He's smiling and making eye contact. He even looks for me to pick him up and leans on me when I hold him. We are not completely there, but making big progress. I hope that is encouraging to others.

Like the other posts said- be easy on yourself. Some days you will do everything right and it still may be a bad day. Just keep going and you will start to see results. They just need that extra love and care.

Thank you Natalie. Trey is a cutie- what a smile. It is too cool Trey came home on Alex's birthday.