Chapter 10 - MOM’S COUNTERATTACKMom stopped apologizing.

Then hired an attorney.
Not because police had arrested her.
They hadn’t.
Hospital social work had made a report because a vulnerable postpartum adult and newborn were involved in questionable caregiving circumstances.
Adult protective services did not automatically take jurisdiction just because Maya was postpartum.
Child welfare conducted a limited safety assessment regarding Noah.
Mom’s attorney advised her to stop talking.
Reasonable.
Then Mom petitioned for temporary grandparent contact with Noah.
That was not reasonable strategically.
She claimed I was cutting her off because Maya was “manipulating” me.
Our lawyer explained:
Grandparents do not simply obtain court-ordered access to an intact family because the parents impose boundaries.
The petition went nowhere.
But the filing told us something.
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Mom still believed access to our child was something she could negotiate around us.
Same pattern.
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