Saturday 21 September 2013

A strange place....

Our Social Worker came around this week and we have started an assessment with her again.  We talked for about three hours, mostly about how we would parent two children should baby come to live with us.  We have to reflect on our parenting styles, support network and our strengths as a couple.  It's like going back in time, but this time it feels different, as we are not having to prove ourselves in quite the same way.  It's strange welcoming our social worker back into our home, having said goodbye and thinking that chapter had closed, to have it opened again.  It took real resolve not to smile to myself as she showered us with praise, about her belief that we could parent two children; having been in such disagreement with us on this point throughout our first assessment and even to the matching panel. BUT we wouldn't change our Social Worker because her insight meant we got Raina and this has led to a may be sibling (ok I will voice it here "our daughter") 

So we have more waiting to do.  No further news this week with regards to the legal process for baby. 

This week we also took Raina to see her sister again for contact the Foster Carers home.  We spent some time chatting with the Foster Carer.  We did some more baby care, including feeding and changing Lily.  Foster Carer was pleased to see us and to have a rest in the armchair.  Lily has been waking up in the night every three to four hours.  Lily looked different from last week, she looked less like a newborn, the face was less squashy.....amazing that she can have changed so much in only a week!


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