Episode 177: Supporting Infants and Biological Mothers (w/ Heather Simpson)
The Forgotten Podcast
The Forgotten Initiative
4.9 • 532 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Forgotten Podcast! I am eager to share another story from the foster care community with you this week.
My guest today is a foster parent herself, but she primarily works alongside birth parents and infants recovering from drug withdrawal. Heather Simpson is a mom to four biological boys, a foster parent, and a charge nurse at Brigid’s Path, an infant recovery center.
In today’s episode, she is sharing how she got connected to the foster care community, what it looks like for infants to withdraw from drug exposure, and the perspective shift she has made from working closely with birth moms. Listen in as Heather shares her important perspective with us!
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by Samaritan Ministries, a community of Christians who care for one |
| 0:05.0 | another spiritually and financially when a medical need arises. It's biblical, affordable health care sharing. |
| 0:11.4 | Learn more at samaritan ministries.org slash the Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:17.4 | Sharing the stories of the foster care community. This is The Forgotten Podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | And we're hugging each other and I was about to say, why are we doing this? |
| 0:27.6 | You know, because in the moment, I'm like, what, this is, why would we do this? |
| 0:33.6 | And before I could say anything, he said, I'm so glad we're doing this. |
| 0:41.0 | Hey, it's Jamie Cabe. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome back to the Forgotten podcast. |
| 0:45.4 | Here we are sharing stories of the foster care community. |
| 0:49.7 | With every episode, our goal is to learn from children, parents, and workers in foster care so that we can all grow in our awareness and be encouraged to support this community right where we live. |
| 1:03.0 | If you want to learn more about the work of TFI, catch up on past podcast episodes, read engaging articles, or donate to send support to this community, |
| 1:14.4 | head on over to the forgotteninitiative.org. We are in this together. Thank you for listening |
| 1:21.9 | and engaging with us. Okay, it is time. Let's do this. |
| 1:28.3 | Well, Heather, I am, I'm really, really happy to have you on the show today. I want to give our listeners just a little bit of context about who you are |
| 1:44.6 | before we dive in. You have been married to your husband, David, for seven years. You have four |
| 1:50.3 | biological boys. And so you are a boy mom. And you've had a foster son right now. Even you're |
| 1:58.5 | doing some respite. Is that what you said to me earlier before |
| 2:02.0 | recording yeah um doing some respite but you're also a part-time charge nurse at bridget's path um and |
| 2:09.1 | we're going to talk some about this experience because in this organization because you have it's |
| 2:14.7 | really been impactful to you right yes that's. That's awesome. Yes. Well, |
| 2:18.9 | thank you again for coming on. And Heather, start by just telling us a little bit about what Bridget's |
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