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  Dear Group, I haven't written and apologize. I have had alot of personal issues and dealing with a dying brothernlaw. I have wrote alot before about my Daughter 20, out on a tether, and 8 months pregnant yesterday. I found out last night for the last two weeks she is getting high, She did it once a week, then twice to everyday. Snorted it then back to shooting. She called me last night and sobbed her eyes out. She is ashamed and is worried about the baby. I am going to spend the day with her but now what? I am out of answers, have faced SHE has to do this, but what do I do now? How do I support her? What about the poor baby, I will take any advice any of you have to offer. Sad in Inkster, MI |
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Fordslittlelady1,
I work in newborn intensive care as a nurse practitioner and management opiate addicted babies all the time. More than likely your grandchild will be born addicted and suffer some withdrawal. We are quite good at minimizing the withdrawal by treating the baby with diluted morphine solution where I work and weaning them slowly. If these babies are brought into a healthy environment after discharge they do very well. Do you know if she'll be able to take the baby home when it's discharged? Many times in the state where I work, the babies go into fostercare if there are no family members available to take the baby. I personally provided foster care (with the intention of adopting) to a little 4 lb baby who was heroin exposed and she was with us for 2 months when a family member stepped forward and took custody of the baby. She did quite well. She lived in a front pack on my chest for the 1st few weeks because she was fussy and liked it best when she was held. She also had
difficulty with her feedings which is not unusual. When she left me (I wish she had been able to stay with us and it hurt so to lose her) she weighed 9 1/2 lbs and was developmentally normal, but the future was still unclear for her.
She turned a year old a few months ago and I hear she is doing very well so far.
I wish you and your family the very best. Please keep us posted!
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| Dear Sharon, I was just going over the message board of h of h, I am the mom whose daughter had a baby, that came up opiate positive do you remember me? Amy is going to be 21 in June, she out of control and getting high to the point she has left the baby with me, she missed her court date and now has a warrant for her. I am going to be 47 in June and work for Ford Motor Co. and am bipolar and have my own issues. She left the baby with me and I am pulling my hair out. He is adorable. But I have to sleep with him almost every night. he cries, no one seems to remember that Amy was doing drugs while she was pregnant. I am sorry to write to you and say I need some support I used to write to Marco and loving mom, I haven't heard from either of them and I am stressed. Any information you can tell me about the heroin addicted babies I welcome or just someone to talk to he is six weeks and weighs 12.2 GOODY  Please reply sometime. Have to go he is crying. Colleen aka fordslittlelady write to [email protected] | | | |
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Colleen,
I'll e mail you privately. I'd be happy to help any way that I can.
Hugs,
Needing Advice.
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Dear Sharon,
I was just going over the message board of h of h, I am the mom whose daughter had a baby, that came up opiate positive do you remember me? Amy is going to be 21 in June, she out of control and getting high to the point she has left the baby with me, she missed her court date and now has a warrant for her. I am going to be 47 in June and work for Ford Motor Co. and am bipolar and have my own issues. She left the baby with me and I am pulling my hair out. He is adorable. But I have to sleep with him almost every night. he cries, no one seems to remember that Amy was doing drugs while she was pregnant. I am sorry to write to you and say I need some support I used to write to Marco and loving mom, I haven't heard from either of them and I am stressed. Any information you can tell me about the heroin addicted babies I welcome or just someone to talk to he is six weeks and weighs 12.2 GOODYPlease reply sometime. Have to go he is crying. Colleen aka fordslittlelady write to [email protected] |
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Sharon
To laugh often and much; to win
the respect of intelligent people
and the affection of children; to
earn the appreciation of honest
critics and to endure the
betrayal of false friends; to
appreciate beauty; to find the
best in others; to leave the
world a bit better whether by a
healthy child, a garden patch or
a redeemed social condition; to
know even one life has breathed
easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Colleen, I don't have knowledge of infants that were born addicted, but I have helped raise my oldest grandson, whose parents were both using drugs. I know the extra need that they require at first and still see some of it to this day.(5 years later) I would be more than happy to talk with you, lend an ear, a BIG shoulder, whatever. Bless you so much for being there for your little one. Take care, Dona |
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ddreams1016w
was just reading your problemwith your grandchild I had a baby
that was addicted all she did was cry when first home only because she
constently did po po and had very bad rashes now she will be 3 years old
and is so beatiful still any and all children are a lot of work. god bless stay
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| | From:  ©Sha | Sent: 12/10/2004 3:52 PM |
Welcome to HofH DD..isn't it wonderful your little one is healthy now..you must love her very much. Congratulations on a job well done. I had a friend whose little boy was born addicted. She was on methadone throughout the last 6 months of her pregnancy and he is a strong..healthy and very smart 17 year old today. Proof positive that you get out what you put in. Sha |
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| | | From: ©Sha | Sent: 12/21/2004 12:07 AM |
Hi D.D, I meant to add and don't know why I didn't that Fordslittlelady took her life in May..maybe 4 months after she posted the above post. You can read the thread where Lovingmom told us here at HofH about it. We will miss all those lost to us...especailly around this time of year it seems to bring back so many memories..in my heart I know that lost to us really means found to themselves..and us too again someday. Sha Thread: |
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