[Gwen72]

Hey Guys! The social worker from the adoption agency we are working with got word from emom's DFS social worker that emom is actually planning on keeping the baby. She told the social worker that her family was going to help her keep him and have been buying things for him. When the adoption agency was informed of this they called her and asked her if they could put us back "on the list." She told them that she was comitted to adoption and had no idea what the DFS social worker was talking about. DFS thinks that she is using the adoption agency to get more services than she can from WIC and welfare. WIC and welfare cover housing, health care and food for her other children but our adoption agency has been helping with all her other bills since MAY. We all got together and compared notes and we've all been told different stories. DFS says that if she does not place this baby when it is born they will place it in foster care. Since we do not live in same state as emom and are not foster care liscensed, we would not get the baby if that happened. I would be crushed. We have decided to go "back on the list" and be shown to other girls considering adoption and baby born situations. Just in case she is not scamming the agency and us, we will still keep talking to this emom and do anything we can do to help her. When the baby is born, if she does decide on adoption we will be happy to adopt the baby and have an open adoption. We just don't think it's fair to us to not keep our options open when she is telling too many stories to too many people. She's obviously keeping her options open. I hope DFS is wrong about her. After all we've been through, I hope I haven't been scammed. We specifically went with an agency to avoid being scammed. I will keep you all posted and I hope to have better news soon.