
Hi everyone.So basically to sum up my story I’m just name the important details.. we live in Michigan.My fiancé & I are young parents. We met at 18(me) & him 19. Were now 22 & 24. We’ve been together going on 5 years.We had our 2yrDD young but she’s so smart and well advanced it was like we did parenting before.We just recently had our DS(7m) and we got put into the worst situation of our lives.We woke up to taking Him to the hospital due to him not moving his arm. Fast forward we find out he has a broken humerus bone. The doctor stated that a non mobile child cannot break his own arm, even if he is rolling/ tossing in his bassinet, & said this is a concern for abuse, but the way my son sleeps is arms up and spread out, causing him to always roll on his arms in awkward positions anyway( which we stated). This Was a complete shock to us. Once in bed we went downstairs to watch tv, and he has been a roller since 3 months, rolling from back to front ant vise versa. Since we didn’t know how the injury came about CPS did an emergency remove on both kids. We had all the nurses around us for support as we cried getting our babies taken away.It has now been a moth since our kids have been removed from our home. We get 2 visits a week, both a hour. We have a good relationship with the foster parents so we talk to our DD on the phone daily as well. We have been doing everything that was put in our case plan before court. We take random drug screens & do occasionally smoke marijuana ( it is legal in Michigan) so there was no issue with that. We are also doing counseling. This is all our foster care worker had for us to do. We both VOLUNTARILY took a polygraph test for this as well. Our case just got transferred to the agency that licensed the foster family. We missed a whole week of visitation because our new worker didn’t contact us the whole week & when she did the reason for her being so behind us because she is sick. I completely understand especially in these times but I feel they should’ve had a different case worker still provide or visitations. It wasn’t fair to us, nor our children who began to show due to it. Today we finally got to see our kids after 9 days of not seeing them. We cried tears of joy. About 30 mins in visitation the caseworker that is substituting for our original caseworker came in and said “ you Guys are so involved with your kids, how did this happen” we explain to her our situation. I expressed to her how we’ve been doing everything our case plan stated to do, and how we are hoping to do reunification with in home services. She expressed that she 100 percent agrees and came in and emailed our caseworker for us stating she was new to the agency. We also have Trial coming up next week. Our CPS caseworker called last week to tell us she was changing charges to neglect of supervision, stating we were properly protecting our child from danger we should’ve known about. I’m hoping the judge will see that we are doing everything we’ve been asked to do, & it will be best for the kids to be home with there bio family and let us participate in home services. I guess I just wonder how long this all takes, how will we for sure know when reunification is starting ... this is the hardest thing we’ve ever had to go through but for our kids we will do anything and everything. via /r/Fostercare https://ift.tt/3cnSYjk
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