Cookie has dry skin behind her ears and Dr. advises use of cortisone cream which clears it up. Baby also has a relatively raw diaper rash and Dr. advises to mix Neosporin with diaper cream.

Mother is not advising when she introduces new foods and so diaper rash may be a food reaction (because baby has existing food allergies). I find this out by accident when she divulges feeding baby strawberry-granola baby food. I notify CPS nurse to educate the mother on transitioning new foods with an allergenic child.

Crossed eyes appear to have cleared up.

Mother now has visits 3 times/week and at least one of them is unsupervised for 2 hours.

May 7 hearing results in a 5/19 return/reunification date. Baby has first and only unsupervised overnight visit from Friday 5/9 through Monday 5/12 (Mother’s Day weekend). Mother calls 9 times from Friday to Monday for anywhere between 1 and 43 minutes.

Cookie sees the Dr. again approx. 5/13 re: diaper rash that they now believe is a bad yeast infection. Nystatin cream is prescribed.

Cookie is reunified with mother on 5/19 with a 5-page document, an entire wardrobe in her current size and a bare bones supply of feeding items (bottles, utensils, remaining food from her WIC allotment, etc.) Page 1=her daily schedule and notes on dietary management of constipation; page 2= listing of her upcoming doctor/specialist appointments (noting which have been made or need to be made) and information she needs for all of them; pages 3=health related information including the current yeast infection with instructions, her ear skin condition with instructions, allergy information, etc.; page 4=developmental information on her current milestones and areas of delay that she may be asked about (with explanations/descriptions of the problems/achievements); and page 5=miscellany… info about her clothing, sleeping arrangements while here, etc.

Caseworker and I agree that as of reunification, phone contact between the mother and I must stop. Caseworker believes the mother will lean too heavily on us and we feel it would be difficult to deal with emotionally.

May 29: Caseworker comes to pick up a refill of Nystatin. Mother put something on the yeast infection hoping to help and it made it worse. Mother thinks maybe she was allergic to the stuff she put on the baby. I tell the caseworker that the refill will not be enough and baby MUST see a Dr. to get more (and gave her the refill in addition).

The caseworker also says that mother has “tossed” the baby's schedule and are "doing their own thing" and I don't quite recall how this came up, but apparently it wasn't a good thing. The caseworker asks me to reprint what I sent because she inadvertently didn't make a copy for herself and the mother no longer has the information. The mother is additionally saying she had no idea that there were appointments to keep for the baby. Mother has also not been able to connect with the Early Intervention therapist and so Cookie’s physical therapy has been disrupted. At this point, I ask the caseworker not to give us updates although we tell her we are always available to answer questions.