[EAGLE6]

We are a family member who is currently trying to get our nephew. I called within 36 hrs of hearing he went into the hospital w/ broken bones that were unexplanined. My heart sank, because I had a feeling.......

Anyhow, the baby went to foster care even though we contacted the worked so soon. The day I called the CW told me, it's still too early to know if we're even going that route. She took my contact info.

5 days later he was released from the hospital. It was that day she called me (which I was going to call her that day anyhow, because I had heard he was being released and I wanted to know what was happneing). She asked the parents for their input- she brought up my husband and I- and they were both okay w/ us.

Still my nephew went into care. There was no justifiable reason for this. She couldn't "deny" us. She didn't even meet us, come to our home, or do anything else. Rather they sent him to foster care, and said we'd work on figuring this out. Now my BIL and the babies mother get a summons to go to court and the papers state their is no suitable relative placement. I was floored. My husband nor I have ever been arrested or anything, so there is nothing she could of even found w/ a check. I actually thought so hard I thought maybe it was because I was on a payment plan for some taxes I couldn't pay to the state all at once, but that would be just silly since we are sticking w/ our pymt plan. So, there was no reason to say we were not suitable.

Now we do have a meeting tomorrow w/ the parents and CW to try and make a "plan" for placement. Still, this should of been done prior to him being placed since we stepped up 5 days before he was released from the hospital and placed. In our case, it seems as if the CW really just does not want to be bothered, and it's bugging the heck out of me.

Maybe this could be the case more than some realize.