Liz Aguero and her husband have been foster parents for six years, in addition to having two biological children. Most of their foster placements have been babies and toddlers who wound up finding forever homes with relatives. Their current foster care child is 18 months old, and he was just matched with his permanent adoptive family, right here in Tampa! So, yes, despite what you may have heard, it is possible to adopt a baby or toddler through foster care.

(Keep in mind that any child in foster care has been through some emotional or physical trauma or neglect.)

We talked with Liz about balancing the harder parts of foster care with the joys of loving on all those sweet babies.