[blparent] techniques for checking out your baby

[K C]

Yes you sure can tell by their breath.  And, as weird as it may sound, you 
can tell when they're stressed by the smell of their breat.  Just take your 
two year old to the Doctor, and subject them to shots, and you'll never 
forget that scent.

Kijuana


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Wells" <pwandmomx2 at suddenlink.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] techniques for checking out your baby


>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
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>
>>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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