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Photo - #AmericasTakenChildren "My older boys have been in foster care since May 28, 2016 primarily because I needed mental health services. Taking my children instead of helping me was CPS/DSS priority. My children were loved & cared for, I just had struggles financially & with depression & anxiety. I JUST NEEDED help. From the beginning the foster mom treated my children as they were hers. She doesn't have children of her own. For the longest time i wanted to have a good relationship with her til I realized she was sabotaging reunification efforts for her own selfish agenda. Our CASA worker confirmed recently that she wants to adopt them, speaks negative about me & doesn't encourage our relationship. I did not abuse or neglect them & due to CPS stealing them from me, mostly due to hearsay, my mental health got worse. I haven't been hospitalized since the beginning of December. I have worked extremely hard to get my mental health on track but it feels impossible without the motivation of my babies. I had a baby March 1st, 8 weeks early. I was the happiest I had been in years preparing for his arrival & my older boys coming home. The same day I was told he was being discharged from the NICU, I was also informed he wasn't coming home to me but with the foster parents who have no experience with newborns, let alone preemies. I see my 4 month old monitored 8 hours a week simply because hes "medically fragile" & they THINK I will sleep through feeds & starve him. I've had to leave messages every 3 hours to "prove" to them I am awake & feeding an imaginary baby. After about a month of that ridiculousness I got it reduced to 3am & 6am. And one point I was told I have to make every single call for 2 weeks for him to come home. I heard the foster mom say he sleeps through the night so I questioned why I was still waking at 3 & 6 if he wasn't & him returning home was nowhere in sight. Now I have to at 11pm & 6am. Regarding my older boys I have observed several behaviors that have declined. I have struggled with efforts regarding manners, discipline, eating habits, spoiled/entitled attitude, appreciation & hygiene such as washing hands before meals. I'm now going to have to re teach them things I put lots of effort into their first 4 & 5 years of life. My children nor myself have not benefited from this situation whatsoever but have been harmed. The unnecessary bond that has been forced upon them will soon have to be broken. And I will have to work even harder to strengthen what was taken from me & turn our relationship back from "visitor" to parent." Lauryn McMonigle #TAKEN #AmericasTakenChildren: #AmericasTakenChildren "My older boys have been in foster care since May 28, 2016 primarily because I needed mental health services. Taking my children instead of helping me was CPS/DSS priority. My children were loved & cared for, I just had struggles financially & with depression & anxiety. I JUST NEEDED help. From the beginning the foster mom treated my children as they were hers. She doesn't have children of her own. For the longest time i wanted to have a good relationship with her til I realized she was sabotaging reunification efforts for her own selfish agenda. Our CASA worker confirmed recently that she wants to adopt them, speaks negative about me & doesn't encourage our relationship. I did not abuse or neglect them & due to CPS stealing them from me, mostly due to hearsay, my mental health got worse. I haven't been hospitalized since the beginning of December. I have worked extremely hard to get my mental health on track but it feels impossible without the motivation of my babies. I had a baby March 1st, 8 weeks early. I was the happiest I had been in years preparing for his arrival & my older boys coming home. The same day I was told he was being discharged from the NICU, I was also informed he wasn't coming home to me but with the foster parents who have no experience with newborns, let alone preemies. I see my 4 month old monitored 8 hours a week simply because hes "medically fragile" & they THINK I will sleep through feeds & starve him. I've had to leave messages every 3 hours to "prove" to them I am awake & feeding an imaginary baby. After about a month of that ridiculousness I got it reduced to 3am & 6am. And one point I was told I have to make every single call for 2 weeks for him to come home. I heard the foster mom say he sleeps through the night so I questioned why I was still waking at 3 & 6 if he wasn't & him returning home was nowhere in sight. Now I have to at 11pm & 6am. Regarding my older boys I have observed several behaviors that have declined. I have struggled with efforts regarding manners, discipline, eating habits, spoiled/entitled attitude, appreciation & hygiene such as washing hands before meals. I'm now going to have to re teach them things I put lots of effort into their first 4 & 5 years of life. My children nor myself have not benefited from this situation whatsoever but have been harmed. The unnecessary bond that has been forced upon them will soon have to be broken. And I will have to work even harder to strengthen what was taken from me & turn our relationship back from "visitor" to parent." Lauryn McMonigle #TAKEN #AmericasTakenChildren

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