Bonding Over First Aid & CPR

Scott and I have been working toward being the Cradle Care family for Adoption Dreams Come True. I have volunteered with the agency for a while and feel honored to have been asked to do this. What this would entail is our family taking in a baby after birth until placement. With open adoption it is more common that a family would be chosen for the child and would be placed right away. However, there are times when a mother hasn't chosen a family or the family she chose hasn't fulfilled all of their requirements. In these cases ADCT now will have a family for the baby to stay with. Again, we feel honored.

Scott and I have done everything an adopting family would in order to adopt - filling out tons of paperwork about ourselves, individual meetings with our social worker, meeting as a couple, a home visit, meeting the kids, finger printing, background checks, a CORE Training class (state requirement for all adopting families, great training) and now First Aid & CPR. The cool thing was ADCT has an adoptive dad who is an EMT and fireman who offered to certify us at our house. I acted out fainting at the kitchen table, Scott was a crazy diabetic who needed sugar, later he fell off a ladder hanging Christmas lights - to which I said if this was real, instead of "making sure the area was safe, putting on my gloves and calling for help" I would have said, "What were you thinking?" Then of course use my new first aid skills.

Brandon, our teacher, set up the scenario that I got stabbed by a

candy cane... the pen there. Scott did great bandaging me up!

 Working on good ol' Resuscitation Annie. We even learned to use an AED

(a defibrillator)...big time. And thankfully no full contact - the

germaphob was really glad she had a device to put over the mouth.

We'll have one more class on infant CPR in a couple weeks and then we're official. We are really hoping to be able to be a small part of the adoption process for a family. We look forward to the opportunities that may come.

Side note: As a Closet Genius I shocked Brandon. Scott asked what CPR stood for and after Brandon sat for a minute thinking he said, "Man that's a good question I haven't been asked that in a long time." I said, "It means Cardio Pulminary Resuscitation." Shock and awe, shock and awe!