[beckypie1979]

hi everyone im new here and just wanted to tell everyone about myself. I am a married 24 year old female that for some reason hasnt been able to have a child so my husband and i are getting started with foster care to adopt and we are going to take newborns up to age 2. we start our foster classes tonight, so wish me luck we are living in the state of west viginia and i am glad i found some support and people who are open to share their experiences with me.

[smithfamily]

hi, we are 31 and 38 and have lost 3babies in the last 6 months and are also in the process of foster/adopt. we are in wv also. we have begun the homestudy but have not started classes yet. are you going thru dhhr? we are going thru childrens home society of wv. if you would like to talk, email me at teresasmith29@yahoo.com

[LotAkids]

Hi guys,
My husband and I started the adoption process in February. We had no intentions of doing fost/adopt. In March our caseworker called and said that they had a seven month old boy that needed to be moved from his foster home because his foster mother was having surgery and they wanted him placed in a permanent home so that if termination occured he didn't have to be moved again. We agreed.
We attached to him instantly. BUT we had to take him twice a week to social services for visits with his birth mother. (She was not relinquishing him. He was being taken because she abused him) It was so hard because even though he was only 7 months old and had been away from her since he was four days old, he would scream every time he saw her.
FINALLY, on June 9, the judge suspended visits and has set termination for September 10. We are counting the days, literally, until it is all over. It is extremely nervewracking and we want to do it again, however, we won't do another legal risk child. There are enough sleepless nights with babies, we didn't need any more worrying about whether social services was going to come and take him away from us.
He will be a year old next Friday. He's been worth every sleepless night!
Good luck, ladies.