Our little man

On June 13th of 2013, I had not had anyone call to place any children with us, so I decided to call and let them know we were still here. I spoke with a very frantic woman who said "can you take a newborn?" I said yes, and she said "Ok, my co worker is on the phone with the hospital right now, she will call you right back". Within 5 minutes J called me. She is an intake worker, meaning she is the "first responder". She filled me in....
He is 2 days old
He tested positive for meth, and benzodiazapines
This is moms 3rd child, she lost the other 2 for the same reasons
She has a long record with DHS, including drug use since age 13
She wants to meet us
There is no Dad on the birth certificate

My heart stopped...a newborn? Ok WOW! I started crying and panicking all at once.

The next day, we met J at the hospital, went up to labor/delivery and walked up to a door with 2 armed guards outside of it. J went in first,, and then came to lead us in. We walked into the room, mom was rocking her son and crying. I didn't know what to do. What do you say in this situation? We didn't have a chance to say anything, J started introducing us, telling mom what was going to happen and questioning who the strange guy in the room was.
Things went really quickly, no time to chat really....very cold, serious....almost creepy.
We did talk to mom a little, she said she liked us from the minute we walked in, she was very reluctant to answer any questions that J asked her. She was told of her court hearing the next day, and released. She then stood up, and handed her tiny little baby to my husband, collected a few items and was escorted out. She took all the giftbags with her, leaving us nothing for him except a ripped up old paperbag. She said there were things inside for him. Looking inside the bag, there were girls clothes, clothes for 18 month olds, and everything was FILTHY.  J told us she would get us a gift certificate to buy him the things he needed. We then waited for 2 more hours for the Dr and nurse to come in and fill out paperwork, give him another checkup, and release him to our custody.  He was tiny, 6 pounds. He was slightly jittery, shaky. There wasn't much to tell about him because mom never saw a Dr when she was pregnant with him. No prenatal care. So we had to kind of wing it. The guards were released, and so were we. We went to Walmart and bought him all the essentials, and then took him home. I scheduled a one week old visit with our daughters pediatrician as soon as we got home, I bathed him, fed him,and let him sleep.
Our daughter was so excited! Everyone was thrilled. We had no idea how long we would have him, we figured not long, but we had a job to do....and we started doing it.