[blparent] babies putting things in their mouths (was bottlewoes.)
Robert Shelton
rshelton1 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 03:30:49 UTC 2009
Correct. Bye the age of 30, most people have eaten several spiders and
thousands of small flying insects. My mom had a good term for this sort of
thing -- "clean dirt," just like the good lord made it, and oh so different
from stuff like pesticides and chips of lead paint.
-----Original Message-----
From: trishs [mailto:slosser at metrocast.net]
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 10:46 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] babies putting things in their mouths (was
bottlewoes.)
My mom says You'll eat a lot of dirt in your lifetime.
> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:57:38 -0700
>Subject: Re: [blparent] babies putting things in their mouths
(was bottlewoes.)
>I know Sarah has tried to share my guide dog's bone once or
twice, at least,
>and I believe she ate a tiny piece of paper, as well as a little
dab of dirt
>from a potted plant. I don't want to think of what all babies
over the
>years, with blind parents or otherwise, have put into their
mouths. You
>take care the best you can, and babies grow up in spite of
themselves.
>My sister worried a lot about how I would know when Sarah had
something
>foreign in her mouth, because she said the only way she could
tell with her
>babies was by seeing their cheeks and haws moving. But honestly,
I've had
>no trouble hearing when Sarah has something in her mouth, and
taking it away
>from her. If I've missed some little speck she's managed to
swallow, I bet
>the same thing has happened to many a sighted parent. So don't
let the
>"what if" questions fluster you too much.
>Jo Elizabeth
>It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself. To
take
>advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. Take
care of what
>you are doing. Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in "Candide"
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 2:43 PM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] bottle woes.
>> When Gab was just learning to crawl, she tried to eat a bug. My
hubby got
>> there just in time to kick it under the nearest soda machine. V
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