[blparent] techniques for checking out your baby

[Barbara Hammel]

I can tell by the different smell of the urine or feces also if mine are 
sick.
Barbara

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From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 3:21 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] techniques for checking out your baby

> 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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