Ella-Rose

Ella-Rose (Under 1) is a beautiful baby girl with fair skin, dark hair and big blue eyes. She has chubby little cheeks and a little button nose.

She is a happy, fun-loving little girl with an infectious giggle and a cheeky smile that lights up any room.

Ella is affectionate and enjoys clapping along, giving high fives and seeing funny faces. People say she’s a chilled out and relaxed little girl. She enjoys babbling and making her voice heard so it’s thought she might be a little chatterbox when she can start speaking! Even though she likes to babble, she’s not a particularly loud baby in terms of crying, she only cries when she’s hungry, although she has started teething so she can get a bit upset about them.

Ella thrives off consistent routine and she’s settled when she knows what to expect – she gets hungry at regular times and likes to nap at similar times each day.

She loves music and dancing and has recently started being weaned but this is in it’s early stages. She usually wakes up around 7am and sleeps in the same bedroom as her carers, so they are quickly aware that she’s awake. Ella goes out of the house each day with her carers and likes being taken to various places to experience new surroundings and get some fresh air. She loves to be outside, going for walks in the pram and looking at the world around her. She enjoys looking at the sky and the trees from her pram when it’s nice and sunny. She spends a lot of her time playing and socialising with her carers and the other babies who live with her, as well as her carers’ grandchildren. Ella is very affectionate and a happy little girl who loves to have cuddles with her foster carers. She loves being spoken and sung to, as well as having her feet tickled and having funny faces made to her.

Ella was born prematurely and spent the first weeks of her life in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She then lived with her birth mum in a Family Assessment Unit for a short while before moving to her foster family at just over a month old.

Ella’s foster carers describe her as an ‘absolute joy’ and a ‘little star’.

Her foster carer tells me how ‘relaxed’ and ‘chilled’ she is, but also how aware and alert she is to what is going on around her. She is very interactive, especially with her carers and the other children in her foster placement, and it is said she enjoys trying to make noise and join in on conversations.

Ella has been diagnosed with a genetic condition. At present, there are no concerns in relation to how this condition is affecting her, but it is not known how the condition may manifest as she gets older.

Ella is a little too young to tell us what she would want from her future family, however, if we had to guess, we would say that she needs a home where she feels safe, understood, and cared for. She would need a family where she will be loved and supported. Her current foster carers love her and have given her the best chance to develop and grow, and she would want her new family to do the same. She would like a family who likes spending time outside and being active, because she like being outside too. She would love a family who can help her live a happy, active, and fulfilling life.