JJJ
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Eeyore tells me today that he has a health project that he needs me to help with and it is due Tuesday. Ok, we have a couple of days. He gives me the assignment sheet -- no wonder the poor boy has no idea where to start....
Interview your parents for the details about "how did I get here?" including:
*telling family and friends we're pregnent
*prenatal care/tests
*mother's diet
*health risks during pregnancy
*when/where labor began
*birth results
*baby shower
*complications during birth
Eeyore was FOUR when he came to us. I can think of a dozen other kids off the top of my head that are adopted in his school.
I'm tempted to do the assignment with the real information:
My birthmom found out she was pregnant with me just two months after giving birth to her first child. I was probably conceived on one of the nights that my birthfather beat the snot out of her and raped her, but he claims that she got pregnant by one of the other guys she was doing. Nobody bothered with a DNA test so I'm not really sure if the man I call birthfather really is.
My birthmom didn't realize that she was pregnant for a while. She wasn't very bright and had a hard time remembering things like when her last period was. Once she knew she was pregnant she has to tell her CPS caseworker cause she was on a supervision plan for not taking good care of the baby she already had.
She probably didn't have many prenatal care visits. Her diet consisted mostly of junk food and whatever they were serving at the church mission that week. She denied it but the caseworker said it was likely that she did some drugs and drank alcohol while she was pregnant.
She had me at Big City Charity Hospital and I was 6 pounds. It says 'father unknown' on my original birth certificate since she wasn't married and no guy came to the hospital to claim me. She didn't have a baby shower but the hospital gave her a carseat and some baby clothes. I'm glad it was a good car seat cause she used to strap me in it and hide me in the closet. Before my first birthday, the caseworker decided that she was tired of my birthmom leaving me alone, locking me in closets and forgetting to feed me all day, so I went into foster care and got bounced around until the 3rd home in 3 years adopted me.
And for the required visual aides, I'm thinking a collage with a bunch of brochures (rape crisis, domestic violence, anti-drugs, child abuse, etc) and a banner across the middle reading "How I got here."
Think they'd get the point...
Interview your parents for the details about "how did I get here?" including:
*telling family and friends we're pregnent
*prenatal care/tests
*mother's diet
*health risks during pregnancy
*when/where labor began
*birth results
*baby shower
*complications during birth
Eeyore was FOUR when he came to us. I can think of a dozen other kids off the top of my head that are adopted in his school.
I'm tempted to do the assignment with the real information:
My birthmom found out she was pregnant with me just two months after giving birth to her first child. I was probably conceived on one of the nights that my birthfather beat the snot out of her and raped her, but he claims that she got pregnant by one of the other guys she was doing. Nobody bothered with a DNA test so I'm not really sure if the man I call birthfather really is.
My birthmom didn't realize that she was pregnant for a while. She wasn't very bright and had a hard time remembering things like when her last period was. Once she knew she was pregnant she has to tell her CPS caseworker cause she was on a supervision plan for not taking good care of the baby she already had.
She probably didn't have many prenatal care visits. Her diet consisted mostly of junk food and whatever they were serving at the church mission that week. She denied it but the caseworker said it was likely that she did some drugs and drank alcohol while she was pregnant.
She had me at Big City Charity Hospital and I was 6 pounds. It says 'father unknown' on my original birth certificate since she wasn't married and no guy came to the hospital to claim me. She didn't have a baby shower but the hospital gave her a carseat and some baby clothes. I'm glad it was a good car seat cause she used to strap me in it and hide me in the closet. Before my first birthday, the caseworker decided that she was tired of my birthmom leaving me alone, locking me in closets and forgetting to feed me all day, so I went into foster care and got bounced around until the 3rd home in 3 years adopted me.
And for the required visual aides, I'm thinking a collage with a bunch of brochures (rape crisis, domestic violence, anti-drugs, child abuse, etc) and a banner across the middle reading "How I got here."
Think they'd get the point...