drug dependant baby, advice needed

[EarthMotherImNot]

I've been asked to foster a baby expected to be suffering drug withdrawal when it is born next week.

It is years since I've cared for one of these and any advice would be most gratefully received.

Just read the whole thread. What a truly inspirational woman. All them beautiful babies given the best start because of Emin. I've cried tears of sadness and joy throughout my read and now more sadness.

Emin's family must be so proud of her for being the amazing lady she is.

❤️ 🌹

I just read the whole thread and now I am bawling. I hope EMIN's family can see she is not forgotten. What an amazing woman she was. RIP

What an inspirational woman. RIP

R.I.P Emin!
If I can be half the foster carer she was I will be happy xxx

Just came across this not knowing what to expect.

Oh my.. there are no words. What a truly wonderful human EMIN was. I was in tears pretty much the whole way through and even more so now. The difference her and her dh must have made to all those babies lives, amazing.

R.I.P EMIN xx

I first read this thread when I joined MN about 18 months ago and sobbed. Have since reread it and sobbed again. What an amazing, truly special woman EMIN was and what a tragedy that she was taken from her family. She gave so much love to ensure better lives for her foster babies. What a wonderful legacy she leaves behind. Mr EMIN was pretty special too.

Just came across his thread...

Oh my word...What an amazing and inspirational women EMIN was. She touched so many lives. Feeling very humbled.

Such a touching thread. I only just saw it mentioned in the aibu classic thread and read from start to finish.it takes a lot to make me cry but this has had me weeping.im off work looking after my.sick lo and I think emin must have been a wonderful person to give so much of herself to others. The story of her and her husband and lo is a real testament to the impact foster carers have and is very inspiriring.

What a truly remarkable lady EMIN was. RIP

Wow !
What an inspirational brave honest loving compassionate HERO EMIN truly was !
You changed so many lifes all for the better !
I have sobbed and snot faced my way through this thread , you will always live on in the babies/lo you nutured loved and cared for !
Life is really very very cruel how your family should and obviously are so very proud of you !
Rip you wonderful inspirational lady x

Taken too soon. Just read this and so very sad. Beautiful woman rip

You amazing, wonderful, woman RIP

Ok, this thread is ancient, but compassion never fades..

The story of ''Ladybird'' has made me cry too... It is just terrible the damage wrought to innocent babies by mothers who continue to use substances when pregnant..
Earth Mother did such a wonderful job, and the very early care she gave to Ladybird will hopefully have helped ameliorate the physical pain the poor baby suffered from drug withdrawals.
I too have seen women lose child after child, it seems they can't nurture, or think of anything apart from their partners/drugs...and tragically these are so often young women who have had ''mothers'' of a similar feckless type.. and so the cycle continues.
They have umpteen babies removed, yet still get pregnant, unaware of the distress they cause.
Babies who go to loving experienced foster homes are fortunate..there may well be a chance of the slate being wiped clean, of the cycle not repeating itself if these young babies are given stability and security from the very earliest days.
I am no social worker, but surely being removed from a stable loving foster family to adoptive one must on some level be noted by even a very young baby.
Babies are so easily conceived by the feckless it seems, and then there are those with so much love to give who for whatever reason cannot have biological children, it does seem an unfair world sometimes.
A wonderful family near us used to foster, and one lad stayed with them for so long and fitted in so well that they were able to adopt him...and a fine young man he turned out to be.
Fosterers do a very special job, and it is far from easy..hats off to you all.

NO.......... Flipped to the end of the thread, and just saw that Earth Mother is no more.... Tears afresh, what a wonderfully kind woman, an Earth Angel for sure. Wherever she is, I'm, sure her good energy exists..

Bereft. I've just found this wonderful thread and was expecting a series of updates on how the lo was progressing. Just bereft.

You are amazing, I am so full of admiration. I hope you bond well in time and have good family feelings xx

Ah I remember this thread from 2010,
EMIN was an amazing person and has inspired many people to become foster carers
Great that it's been put in classics, when I think of Mumsnet, this is the thread that epitomises what is good about Mumsnet

Goodness me my ♥ hurts. Utterly heartbroken at how this ended. What a courageous lady. One of earths angels.

Ah, this is sad and beautiful at the same time. RIP beautiful lady.

RIP Emin - you must be watching over your foster babies now

Just read this thread hoping to maybe hear how this little baby was doing 8 years on. RIP EMIN what an amazing woman who has helped give so many little lives the best start 😭

Just read through this thread for the first time.
In floods of tears 😥😥😥 this is the saddest thing.
I never find anuthing sad but this. 💔
Laid next to my lo who is blissfully asleep and reading how EMIN's lo & mine were the same weights and thinking about my lo crawling. 😥😥😥
Rest in eternal peace you amazing, amazing woman.
You have made me even more determined to take up fostering.
Thank you for everything you did for this world.

RIP Emin never expected the thread the end like this

Just read this for the first time.

There are some extra special people out there and @EarthMotherImNot is one of them. What an amazing selfless lady. Heartbreaking to see how this thread ended.

There are no words