Kinship placement-Frustrations
I think I just need to vent to someone who understands and might be able to give insight into some of my frustrations.
A family friend’s 9 month old was placed with me 7 weeks ago as a relative placement. We have weekly hour long supervised visits scheduled. Bio mom has made it to 3/6 with one of those being one we rescheduled for her.
I’m allowed to send her pictures & updates. So I send her a daily picture. She will save it to the chat & occasionally save it to her camera roll. Maybe twice a week she will ask how FD is doing. I’ll use that as an opportunity to show/tell something she learned, send some pictures I’ve taken, or even tell her what she did that day if bio mom asks in the evening. After I send the response I am met with an “aw” if I get any response at all.
I feel like some of this is probably normal, and I shouldn’t get frustrated about it. But it’s hard some days to not let it bother me, today just happened to be one of those days.