sweetiebaby02v
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What is the name of your state? TX
On September 10 my niece, Journee, was born 3 months preemature. Two weeks later her mother died. Of course since she was preemie she had to stay in the hospital until she was able to come home. Normally only grandparents and parents could visit the babies in the nicu, but since Journee's father is uninvolved, i was allowed to visit. I am related to her by way of my fiancee. Her mother was his sister so really im not a blood relative. after claudia the mother died i hAd a hard time getting in to see her but eventualy it was worked out to were i could visit when i pleased. after claudia died, her grandfather, arnald, signed a paper, we are not sure what this paper is bc now the hospital claims they dont know what this paper was and sometimes they say it has to do with consent like when she needed eye surgery, he had to sign the papers saying it was ok to do so. she was supposed to come home on friday the day before christmas so the hospital has new parents "room In" so they can observe parents with the children. Arnald and i were going to stay wed night and thurs night bc this was required since he was to be the legal guardian because he was the closest relative he wife passed away a few months before and i was going to be taking care of her. Journee also has a 9 yr old sister who lives with us, we all live together in one house. Arnald is also not claudia's real father, he adopted her when she was young, she was a child from his wifes previous marriage. anyway, on wed evening as i was about to give journee a bottle three women came to the room and rudly told us that journee is not going home with us. we questioned them and they stated it was in the best interest of the child and because they did not know what claudia wanted to do with her. but the 9 yr old lives with us and it would be obvious that any mother would want their children together. so the next day a women from amarillo came and took her into foster care, this is were she is now. we live in brownfield a town about 2 hrs away from amarillo. we will be allowed to visit but we dont know when bc the cps worker doesnt seem to get things going and is never available when i call for her. We were told we could visit one hour a week. they are doing a home study, when they will come inspect the house and make sure we make enough money to support her. I have her on medicaid and she was going to be in the wic program but now we dont know if we are going to get her back home. She has lots of people who love her very much and we have all the things she needs here at home, one of my friends had a baby shower for me even though she isnt mine so its not like we arent going to take care of her, i graduated early so i could watch her all day and night. what do we need to do to get her back from the state? they have legal custody and the cps worker said we will go to court but we dont know if we should hire a lawyer or not. who do we need to talk to and what kind of questions need to be asked. her sister, eva, is very concerned that she will lose the only person who connects her to her mother. Eva has lost her mother and grandmother within the past 9 months and is very depressed because she thinks she is going to lose her baby sister to. The women told us the reason they were doing this was because journee's father could come and take her and they couldnt say no bc he is her father, but we dont know who he is and we dont even know if he knows he has a daughter. at first the nurses at the hospital told us that all we had to do to take her home is bring the papers saying that arnald adopted claudia and we could take journee home. what do we need to do, this is very frustrating, the cps worker also told me that she will be gone on vacation for a week and she didnt give me a number of the women who is taking care of journee so i can calll and check on her. please help me im so confused
On September 10 my niece, Journee, was born 3 months preemature. Two weeks later her mother died. Of course since she was preemie she had to stay in the hospital until she was able to come home. Normally only grandparents and parents could visit the babies in the nicu, but since Journee's father is uninvolved, i was allowed to visit. I am related to her by way of my fiancee. Her mother was his sister so really im not a blood relative. after claudia the mother died i hAd a hard time getting in to see her but eventualy it was worked out to were i could visit when i pleased. after claudia died, her grandfather, arnald, signed a paper, we are not sure what this paper is bc now the hospital claims they dont know what this paper was and sometimes they say it has to do with consent like when she needed eye surgery, he had to sign the papers saying it was ok to do so. she was supposed to come home on friday the day before christmas so the hospital has new parents "room In" so they can observe parents with the children. Arnald and i were going to stay wed night and thurs night bc this was required since he was to be the legal guardian because he was the closest relative he wife passed away a few months before and i was going to be taking care of her. Journee also has a 9 yr old sister who lives with us, we all live together in one house. Arnald is also not claudia's real father, he adopted her when she was young, she was a child from his wifes previous marriage. anyway, on wed evening as i was about to give journee a bottle three women came to the room and rudly told us that journee is not going home with us. we questioned them and they stated it was in the best interest of the child and because they did not know what claudia wanted to do with her. but the 9 yr old lives with us and it would be obvious that any mother would want their children together. so the next day a women from amarillo came and took her into foster care, this is were she is now. we live in brownfield a town about 2 hrs away from amarillo. we will be allowed to visit but we dont know when bc the cps worker doesnt seem to get things going and is never available when i call for her. We were told we could visit one hour a week. they are doing a home study, when they will come inspect the house and make sure we make enough money to support her. I have her on medicaid and she was going to be in the wic program but now we dont know if we are going to get her back home. She has lots of people who love her very much and we have all the things she needs here at home, one of my friends had a baby shower for me even though she isnt mine so its not like we arent going to take care of her, i graduated early so i could watch her all day and night. what do we need to do to get her back from the state? they have legal custody and the cps worker said we will go to court but we dont know if we should hire a lawyer or not. who do we need to talk to and what kind of questions need to be asked. her sister, eva, is very concerned that she will lose the only person who connects her to her mother. Eva has lost her mother and grandmother within the past 9 months and is very depressed because she thinks she is going to lose her baby sister to. The women told us the reason they were doing this was because journee's father could come and take her and they couldnt say no bc he is her father, but we dont know who he is and we dont even know if he knows he has a daughter. at first the nurses at the hospital told us that all we had to do to take her home is bring the papers saying that arnald adopted claudia and we could take journee home. what do we need to do, this is very frustrating, the cps worker also told me that she will be gone on vacation for a week and she didnt give me a number of the women who is taking care of journee so i can calll and check on her. please help me im so confused
