Update: Preg. & Now fostering a baby girl that I didn't know my sister had. Need help & prayers.

Updated with baby registry

Update: baby is now in the NICU. As if last night she needed to go morphine management for her withdrawal symptoms. She was struggling to eat and already lost 8% of her birth weight. So They have her on a feeding tube now. And monitoring her vitals.

Mamas, I need some help. I'm not one to ask for material things . But this sweet girl needs help. Being pregnant with a little boy in preparing for, and now having to urgently prepare for this little angel, I just have to admitt I need help.

I created a baby registry on Amazon.

Many people requested me to do so.

This is the link

https://www.amazon.com/baby-reg/ashley-april-2022-frostburg/W83IUQTURH3

Registry info in case the link don't work

Ashley winner

Baby due date April 2022

From frostburg md

A 9 month old. Pregnant

& Out of left field asked to take my NB baby niece in that I didn't know existed until last night , so she wasn't placed in foster care.

I said I wasn't scared to death right now I would be lying.

We have a 9 month old son and I found out I was pregnant 3 months ago (thanks for working paraguard IUD!)

We didn't think we were going to be having any more babies so I donated all my son's things to the women's DV shelter.

Not only that, but just last night we got a call. And I'm still in shock really. My husband even more so.

I have a younger sister who without giving out too much of her personal life, has been absent from our lives for nearly 3 years. At one point I didn't know if she was dead or Alive.

She's been in and out of rehabs numerous times.

She is a survivor of domestic violence and she has co occuring mental health issues and after the trauma of DV She turned to self medicating. She's only 22 right now. She's been isolated and absent from our entire family. We try to help her when we can but she stopped calling and coming by.we had no clue where she was even at

Anyhow....

Last night we got a call from a social worker. A CPS worker.

She explained to us that my sister just gave birth, to a baby girl. Yeah my jaw hit the ground. After I asked 100 questions in shock she informed me that the state is stepping in to take the child unless my sister could establish kinship care.

That's when my sister begged them to call me. We got off the phone and I agreed to meet the social worker here at my home this morning. She told me my sister would also be calling me.

I waited and waited. No call. I went to the hospital & when I got there my sister done checked herself out.

So the social worker just left . She gave me a letter from my sister

What I know: baby girl appeared to be full term

There was ZERO prenatal care.

She tested positive for methamphetamine and fentanyl. Both urine and meconium.

She did not name the baby nor hold the baby.

She was being pulled into CPS care as a CINA case. (Child in need of assistance)

After reading the letter , I was blindsided. Long letter short, My sister was asking me to take in her baby girl. She begged me not to let her get into the system. She apologized 100 times. And promised she would be in touch with me

What a shocker right?

I knew from the first phone call from cps I would take my niece. We have no family left except our disabled mother.

But we have NOTHING. We're scrambling to get out to get the basics before she is discharged from the nursery.

She has to stay 5 more days to make sure she won't go thru NAS. neonatal withdrawal)

So far she's doing beautifully .

I am on my way to the hospital right now.

So not only are we prepping for our baby to be born in 5 months , we now have a newborn that's coming home in less than a week. I am lost. Scared. Feeling every emotion possible all at once.

We are a one income family after covid. Husband works 6bdaysna week on night shift for the JLG company. He makes okay money. But with a 9 month old baby, and one on the way, and now another on the way in less than a week, I have to say I'm terrified.

But what canb6a do? At this time my focus is on making sure baby girl is healthy and getting her home. I know this is going to be a long bumpy road.

Idk how it's going to turn out with being able to get all babys things and in time at that. I'm hoping cps might have some resources but as of now they said they could only pick up a car seat.

There has to be a way. That's the only option.

Please guys, pray for my family and my sister . We need all the help and prayers we can get.

Cross posted so we can get all the support and prayers 🙏 that we can.

Thank you all so much.