[blparent] techniques for checking out your baby

[Shannon Wells]

I don't post much, too busy, but I thought I'd jump in here. I think a good 
answer to these would be, by touch and by smell. I can tell by the way my 
babies feel to know if they have a fever. I know by the squishiness and 
smell of a diaper to know if it needs changing. Giving them a bath was a 
challenge for me in the beginning cause I'm not coordinated at all, but they 
aren't as breakable as some might think and practice does make perfect. I 
used to think, before i had babies that I'd never be able to tell if their 
bottle was empty, just going on sound, but now I can hear it across a room 
if a baby is sucking air from a bottle instead of milk. One thing, though, 
have any of you ever been able to tell if your baby is sick by the smell of 
their breath? I noticed it first with my older daughter, but the baby is the 
same. There's sort of a sweeter smell to their breath when they are sick and 
need antibiotics. Could I be smelling the infection? Odd, but there's my 2 
cents, for what it's worth.
Shannon Wells
on the web at
http://www.christianhomeplace.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
To: "blind parents" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:51 PM
Subject: [blparent] techniques for checking out your baby


>I know this is a weird title for a subject line, but I thought it fit the 
>bill.
> People are always asking us how we do stuff with our baby, well maybe we 
> could provide some answers.
> 1.  How do we know when the diaper is needing changing?
> 2. How do we know when the baby has a fever?
> 3. How do we put an outfit on our newborn?
> 4. How do we bathe our newborn?
> 5. Do our hands get dirty when changing a poopy diaper?
>
> These are just a sprinkling of the questions I have received in the first 
> year of Gabriella's life.
> They sound like stupid questions, but to someone who doesn't know, they 
> are real and scarry. V
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