Fostering With Love

Download the .mp3(Right Click, Save Target As...)In this fourth episode, I talk about some difficulties we have had with feeding, and how we have started to develop a relationship with the bio mom. Blog post to come soon.

Download the .mp3(Right Click, Save Target As...)A lot has happened since the last blog post. As you know we've been placed with a little three month old boy, and in addition we were placed with his older three year old sister. They share the same bio mom, and they wanted to keep the siblings together. However, she only ended up staying with us for a few days and then she was reunified with her mom. It was determined by the court that baby, however, was not really bonding yet with bio mom, or gaining weight under her care. We have been able to get him to start eating more and so he has gained weight under our care. So for the time being he will be staying with us. We're not sure how long that will be or where it will lead, but we really like the little guy and are happy to provide for him a safe home. So, you read in a previous post that we did not want to change the birth order in our family, and yet we took in a three year old while our bio son is two. We did this because they wanted to get the siblings to

Download the .mp3(Right Click, Save Target As...)In this episode the audio is a little more off the cuff, and differs slightly from the blog post text.Hello Everybody, and welcome to episode 2 of Fostering With Love. I'm Dan, and today I'm going to talk a little bit about my family, the next steps we have gone through in the foster care process after becoming certified, and what it has been like bringing a foster child into our home for the first time. More WaitingWhen we were going through the P.R.I.D.E. training classes, which was meeting for about 4 hours at night twice a week for a month, we were told that as soon as all your paperwork goes through, they are going to call you. This is because there are so many kids in foster care waiting for homes. As an example I found this information my local paper's website at: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ourkids/stories/?ID=186795Fostering hope Taryn Brodwater and Jody Lawrence-turner • Staff writersPublished April 27, 2007 in The Spokesman-ReviewIn Washington, t

Download the .mp3(Right Click, Save Target As...)Hi. My name is Dan and I'm about to become a foster parent! Come along for the ride. My goal in creating this blog and podcast is to share my experiences so that others can get a glimpse of what it's like to be a foster parent. If you're thinking about becoming a foster parent, I hope this will be an encouragement and a tool for you in making your decision. Don't have time to read? Don't like to read? Download the mp3 and listen on your commute, listen with the player provided on this page as you read the blog post, or listen with others. Hopefully it will inspire some thoughts on foster parenting, or some great dialogue between you and your significant other. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous about bringing foster children into our home, but I'm also very excited.When my wife and I first started talking about becoming foster parents, I went to the web to try and find stories of foster parents and foster children. I wanted to know what their experiences