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Yes, family members generally have priority over strangers, especially in the beginning of a case. This will not be the first baby in the world to be raised by a grandparent.
The question of whether the grandmother is physically fit enough to raise a child is an important question. But there is something in your post that really worries me----the claim that "she loved the baby and the baby even looked like her." I think it's really, really important for all of us foster parents to realize that we are FOSTERING FIRST. If we can't go into this with the knowledge that we are fostering kids in the hopes they'll be reunified with family, and that we'll only adopt if the child has no family capable of taking him or her, then we shouldn't be doing this. None of us is entitled to somebody else's baby, even if they "look like" us.
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