[blparent] adoption update

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

You and Myles will be in my thoughts and prayers.  You are lucky to have 
each other.

Jo Elizabeth

"Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds 
water."--Swedish proverb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannan Zinck" <shannanzinck at gmail.com>
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 7:41 PM
Subject: [blparent] adoption update


> Well he is in special care because his birth mom was using drugs while
> pregnant and they found cocaine and opiates in his system. Cocaine leaves
> the system in less than 3 days so it looks like she used through out the
> pregnancy. If his withdrawals aren't too bad we can take him home Monday 
> and
> if not then they have to put him on Morphine to wean him. If he needs
> treatment then we won't be able to bring him home for at least 2 weeks. We
> didn't know about the drug use as she lied to us the whole time. No 
> grudges
> though he is responding well and so far it looks promising to bring him 
> home
> Monday. We were disappointed but, he is a joy and is already taking to us.
> I'm glad he is ours and we will get through this together.