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<blockquote data-quote="grmac" data-source="post: 527301" data-attributes="member: 12243"><p>Thank you all for giving me a little insight about a play therapist. Let's see if I can answer some of your questions. TB is my son's daughter. We have not adopted her because my son is still very much a part of her life. I do have guardianship. Bio mom of TB was a teen mom who was using meth and pot during her pregnancy. TB was born premature but well. After she was born, the mother would cart her around from home to home, walk around with her at all hours of the night (she was basically homeless), and would dump her off with anybody and disappear for 3-4 days at a time. We have no idea what she was exposed to. When she was about 4 months old she got RSV. My son talked the mother into letting TB come stay with us until she got well. She came back for her in 3 days. Then, 3 days after that, TB ended up back into the hospital with RSV going into double pneumonia. TB was in the hospital for 3 days and released to us (per CPS). We found out she never had any shots so as soon as she was well, we had her scheduled for her first set of shots. As luck would have it, she contracted HIB. HIB is one of the things they are inoculated for. She was very very ill and was quarentined for 10 days in the hospital hooked up to IV medications. Since she had such a rough start (illnesses, no real bonding with bio mom, neglect, etc.) the psychologist believes she may have PTSD. TB has real anger issues (throws her chair across the room, breaks her toys, etc.) as well as fears and anxiety. Even with all this she can be very lovable. There are no mental health issues on our side but not sure about mom's side. Mother did have ADHD as a child but the psychologist doesn't believe TB does. The mother is currently in prison so this is also causing some issues for TB. She rarely saw mom anyway but always misses her. TB was a very good baby for us and was a little delayed crawling, walking, talking, etc. (probably due to being premature and her later illnesses) but seems to be caught up now! I hope I've covered it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="grmac, post: 527301, member: 12243"] Thank you all for giving me a little insight about a play therapist. Let's see if I can answer some of your questions. TB is my son's daughter. We have not adopted her because my son is still very much a part of her life. I do have guardianship. Bio mom of TB was a teen mom who was using meth and pot during her pregnancy. TB was born premature but well. After she was born, the mother would cart her around from home to home, walk around with her at all hours of the night (she was basically homeless), and would dump her off with anybody and disappear for 3-4 days at a time. We have no idea what she was exposed to. When she was about 4 months old she got RSV. My son talked the mother into letting TB come stay with us until she got well. She came back for her in 3 days. Then, 3 days after that, TB ended up back into the hospital with RSV going into double pneumonia. TB was in the hospital for 3 days and released to us (per CPS). We found out she never had any shots so as soon as she was well, we had her scheduled for her first set of shots. As luck would have it, she contracted HIB. HIB is one of the things they are inoculated for. She was very very ill and was quarentined for 10 days in the hospital hooked up to IV medications. Since she had such a rough start (illnesses, no real bonding with bio mom, neglect, etc.) the psychologist believes she may have PTSD. TB has real anger issues (throws her chair across the room, breaks her toys, etc.) as well as fears and anxiety. Even with all this she can be very lovable. There are no mental health issues on our side but not sure about mom's side. Mother did have ADHD as a child but the psychologist doesn't believe TB does. The mother is currently in prison so this is also causing some issues for TB. She rarely saw mom anyway but always misses her. TB was a very good baby for us and was a little delayed crawling, walking, talking, etc. (probably due to being premature and her later illnesses) but seems to be caught up now! I hope I've covered it. [/QUOTE]
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