[blparent] techniques for checking out your baby

[Veronica Smith]

I never could tell by the smell, but a friend of mine says she can always 
tell when her kids are sick by the smell of their breath.  I could always 
tell, Gab was more fussy and wanted to nurse more or just be held.
I guess this blind parent did just fine, she is 9 years old now, plays 
soccer, reads like a champ and drives her mom crazy. V
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shannon Wells" <pwandmomx2 at suddenlink.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2008 9:02 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
>
>
>>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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