Days like today make my job hard. *Semi-Vent*

SouthernBellaKS

So I was just given two new cases...both of them newborn babies who were positive for cocaine. It makes me want to jump up and down and scream and yell. Normally this wouldn't bother me anymore than any of my other cases, but the more I'm hit with baby fever, the worse its getting.

briast20

((Hugs)).  I'm sorry.  That would bother me too.

punkin514

I'm so sorry. You are stronger than I am....a case like that would afffect me no matter what my TTC status is!! ((((Hugs!!!))))

FreyaWin2382

Ugh....nothing is worse then dealing with situations like this. I am dreading going back to work and seeing the child abuse cases...

I am so sorry you are having to deal with those cases, and that they actually exist in the first place!

1220winterbride

You poor thing. I am bitter about having to hear about co-worker's child plans for Halloween costumes. I would be a basket case if I had to handle actual abuse.

yikes.

SouthernBellaKS

I try so hard not to be bitter, but some days it just hits the wrong nerve. Especially some of these parents who have had 7, 8, 16 children and none of them are in their custody. It makes me feel better when I have cases where a child ends up being adopted by people who can't have kids.

Kasi80

Ugh, that sucks big time.  WHat line of work are you in?  Social work?

SouthernBellaKS

Yes. I work in child welfare.

Kasi80

SouthernBellaKS:

Yes. I work in child welfare.

That must be so hard to see.  I had planned to go into that line of work (have the degree for it) but didn't.   

SouthernBellaKS

You learn to balance the emotional aspect of it to get the job done. Most cases aren't that bad because even if there is some sort of abuse/neglect, it was rarely done maliciously, and the family wants help to be a stronger unit. Every once in awhile a situation gets under my skin, like it did today.

LS50

That is awful! So sorry you have to deal with this. Good luck at work today girl!

These stories always awaken the bitter angry infertile me who says WHY on earth can these cocaine addicts (note: no exaggeration...ACTUAL cocaine addicts) have 7, 8, 16!! babies that they don't even care about and I can't manage to have one! I mean really...I'm sitting over here agonizing over drinking a cup of coffee and making sure I get my recommended dose of folic acid and they are sending illegal stimulants rushing through their placenta to their poor innocent baby.  Something not right in the universe!

{{sorry for hijacking your vent }}

bribri81404

((hugs)) I'm so sorry you have to deal with that! You are definitely stronger than me! That would make me want to find the mother and strangle her!!

amandacol28

LS50:

That is awful! So sorry you have to deal with this. Good luck at work today girl!

These stories always awaken the bitter angry infertile me who says WHY on earth can these cocaine addicts (note: no exaggeration...ACTUAL cocaine addicts) have 7, 8, 16!! babies that they don't even care about and I can't manage to have one! I mean really...I'm sitting over here agonizing over drinking a cup of coffee and making sure I get my recommended dose of folic acid and they are sending illegal stimulants rushing through their placenta to their poor innocent baby.  Something not right in the universe!

{{sorry for hijacking your vent }}

This exactly!!

SouthernBellaKS

I told Dh the other day I was gonna quit my job, take up meth, and roam the streets for a few days and I'd probably get KU.

AngnShaun

awful... there was a story here in NY about a woman who was shooting heroin in the parking lot of a babies or toys r us with her 2 month old daughter in the car... and a guy who beat his wife to death with a chair leg and then shot his two children while they slept...  stories like these make me angry on so many levels... but mostly because these people can have kids but so many cant... its exhausting to think about but i cant help it

LS50

SouthernBellaKS:

I told Dh the other day I was gonna quit my job, take up meth, and roam the streets for a few days and I'd probably get KU.

Oh you totally would!!  That will be my last resort fertility plan

Thanks for the laugh...I do so well holding it together IRL but it is good to let my inner jaded bitter self out every once in a while!

charmedgrl517

((HUGS)) I would have a hard time with that too....some ppl just make me sick.

nursemama2be

I'm so sorry. I hate seeing women who don't see what a miracle it is to deliver a healthy baby and abuse their bodies.