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This message was originally posted by Wendi5000.

How many children do you have in your home right now? How many have come and gone during the time you have been a foster parent?

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This message was originally posted by evansmum.

Right now we have 3 (including Evan), and we have had, hmmm...... 7 "come and go" (well, 2 have come - not gone ) since August, 2002 (only 1 long term).

Doesn't seem like we've had that many, but we've had, O, R, J, J, J, D, and N. Wow, guess we've been busier than I thought.



Meg

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This message was originally posted by Sharkey.

I have three currently. One long term (been with me almost a year) , two short term (been with me 5 months) sibs who will return to biomom in November. Before that, one other for 13 months.

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This message was originally posted by hope4kids.

I have had a total of 9, 2 or 3 at a time. I have 2 I am adopting.

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This message was originally posted by glk.

We currently have 3 that we recently adopted; one "adult" adopted at 6, now 19 and at Job Corps. We have had more than 40 'come & go', alot of these were respite. Kids that were "ours", not respite, stayed anywhere from 26 days to 11 months. The most we've had at one time was for 6 weeks last spring, our three, then 18 months, 7 & 8 years, plus a 6 year old & twins of 10 months. Our oldest was still at home, giving us a grand total of 7.

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This message was originally posted by MidwestMom.

We currently have four children--two sibling groups of two. We have had 14 children since May, with three of them being respite care. We have a bio son 6, bio daughter 15, FS2, FD4, FD6, FD7...Busy but we love it..

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This message was originally posted by OregonMom.

We currently have 3. A 15 month old boy we are adopting (had since 4 days old), A 10 month old girl who will go home in April (had since 3 days old), and A 4 month old girl working toward reunification (had since 24hrs old).

We have had 2 other infants and a 4 year old.

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This message was originally posted by Lisa&Jason.

We have two right now. K is 2 months (we got him at 3 days) and T is 6 months (we got her at 4 months). We have had one respite who was 1 year for 2 weeks. We started in June and are licensed for two and having a blast!

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This message was originally posted by jolean12.

Currently we have 5 children in our home....J & J sibling group 14 y/o boy and 7 y/o girl have had for 1 yr, S 5 y/o fs have had for 3 months, J our 2 y/o son, and W 15 months and hopefully adopting, had since 1 day old.

During the last 15 months, since we have been licensed 25 children have stayed with us ranging from 1 day to 15 months. The blessings we have received have been endless.

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This message was originally posted by jodyk2.

I've had 1 fs (now 2 yo) twice: 8 months last year, 5 1/2 months so far this year. I'm only licensed for 1 child, as it's all I can reasonably handle on my own right now.

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This message was originally posted by CarolineC.

we have had 6 in just over a year, and since I was licensed in 96, I have worked with 32 others.

dh and I have fostered -w ( baby returned to biomom and killed who was a micropreemie with numerous medical issues from 7-14 months old), T 6yr old g with PTSD, RAD, and lots of aggression, went to another placement, C a 4yr old girl short term returned to an aunt, baby girl A-from 6days old to 3 monthsold with Down's and heart defects adopted out, and now another A, but a boy. 3 months old preemie, with seizures, reflux, high tone, O2, and pulse ox monitor working on Reunification, and last but not least D who was 23 months at placement with a dx of autism. Now almost 3 and in process of adopting... she is not autistic


so, W, D, T, C, A & A

we are open for 2-3 medical placements (0-3) , and emergencies. (0-7)

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This message was originally posted by megwing.

We have one little guy - 8 months old - who we have had since he was 7 weeks old and are hoping to adopt. He's our second. Our first was with us from 4 months of age to 11 months and was adopted out to distant family.

M.

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This message was originally posted by mom22many.

We have been fostering for 4 years now and have had 21 children placed in our care. We also did respite for the first6 months but adding all those kids in would be too much!! Presently we have 3 sibs 8 months, 18 months and 2.5 years and a 10 year old along with our own 3 who are 10,13,15. So we have 7 kids at any given time. We have had 6 of our kids longer than a year. One baby J was 18 months then adoption and 2 other little ones 13 months and 2 more sibs who stayed 22 months and 28 months till they moved to long term residences to serve their needs. The 10 year old we have now has been with us 14 months and the little ones 6 months. And life goes on................................................ .LOL

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This message was originally posted by Robin Lipinski.

We have a 11m0. old FS right now. We have had him for 3 weeks. We have had two others from birth ,one for 7mo and one for 8mo. Also some respite care inbetween them. We like one at a time and just babies. We have 10 of our own ages 27-6yrs Robin

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I am brand spankin new to the board We have been fostering for a little over 20 years we have had 82 children most of which were drug exposed infants. we have 3 bio daughters and have adopted 4 boys plus our fk's. our kids range from 24years-3months. Look forward to reading lots more on the board