In re L.A. CA1/1
In October 2020, the San Francisco Human Services Agency (Agency) received a report that both mother and baby L.A. had tested positive for methamphetamine. L.A. was born prematurely at 35 weeks and was in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) suffering from low birth weight, low blood sugar, and feeding issues which required ongoing medical care and observation. Both mother and T.A. (father) denied mother used drugs. According to mother, she stopped using in February when she learned she was pregnant. Mother would not allow the social worker to disclose the positive drug tests to the maternal grandmother, so the Agency was unable to explore safety planning with the family. Mother theorized that someone might have slipped some methamphetamine into her water.
Mother’s older child, N.B., had been placed in a guardianship in January 2019 after mother failed to reunify with her.
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