He has had a nice few days not having to suffer with a sore bottom and thrush.
Baby's Mum wrote me a nice letter today thanking me for looking after her son and for the good care I am taking and thanking me for allowing her to be part of his life and she expressed her wish to contribute to his needs whatever they should be, clothing, nappies or toys...so sweet!
I wrote back to her to say I would kiss & cuddle him once more each day for her and that if she supplied me with a photo I would show him each day and tell him who she is. I felt so sad for her, evidently she is very caring and for once the birthmum isn't critiscising me for the way I look after her baby. This is normal behaviour because they aren't capable of the caring they can't bear the fact that a foster carer can so they find something to pick on, be it that the baby has a cut on it, the bootees are tied too tight, its always something unreasonable or stupid. Even more stupid is that when the birthmum mentions the silly critiscism, the social worker agrees and comes back and says "the baby's Mother made mention..." instead they should say "no, I don't agree" and nip it in the bud.
I had an incident one time where a baby I was caring for went off to a visit with its badly drug affected Mother and she noted that the baby had a cut on her arm...on inspection it was a red dot smaller than a freckle...I couldn't believe that the social worker even mentioned but it was documented on my file...I had quite a lot to say about that and I don't think Doc's were happy.
This is the same baby came to my home with a toy that had wire protruding from it...which I had handed back to the worker explaining that it was not safe and I was counselled on the fact that I was sending back a toy that the parents had given the child. It was actually a giveaway from a pharmaceutical company. I ended up saying to DOC's tat the supposed cut on the baby's arm was most likely an injury from playing with the toy...that shut them up.
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