[blparent] babies putting things in their mouths (was bottlewoes.)

[Robert Shelton]

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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