[blparent] French Braid

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Jessica, I'm truly sorry about the loss of Angela Grace.  Congratulations on 
your coming son, and I hope he and Lucy help to keep your life full of 
blessings.

Jo Elizabeth

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed 
until it is faced."--James Baldwin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jessica Lucken" <pete1744 at umn.edu>
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 6:49 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid


> Great plan.  I do mean to respond to your previous email you sent a couple
> of months ago regarding the new baby but it has just been so crazy, that I
> didn't want to elaborate too much.  Needless to say, we found out at 20
> weeks in the ultrasound that our baby had many unexpected life threatening
> problems including being way too small, a cyst on her neck and
> nonfunctioning kidneys.  This was right before Christmas and we were
> devastated.  We did an amnio and found out that the baby had Turner's
> syndrome which is the opposite of downs which means she was missing a
> chromosome.  Needless to say, there was no way she would have survived 
> much
> longer in the womb, so we scheduled an induction on December 31.  Angela
> Grace was born at 12:42AM on January 1 weighing 1LB 8 ounces; she was so
> heavy due to all of the extra fluid on her heart and brain.  I basically 
> had
> to recover from a normal birth without the baby as a reward.  The one good
> thing was that we got to hold her and to take pictures of her.
> A
> Anyway, we are now expecting again, and it is little boy.  Everything is
> perfect and he is due January 14.
>
> I hope all is well with you and your family.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Dena Wainwright
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 9:20 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid
>
> Jessica.
> I am about 40 mins from your house. We should get together for a play
> date/french brade lesson. Just email me offlist.
> Dena
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jessica Lucken" <pete1744 at umn.edu>
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2009 7:47 PM
> Subject: [blparent] French Braid
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> So my three-year-old daughter always wants her hair in French braids, I
>> think mainly because her teachers often do this at school for her.  She
>> has
>> long thick hair, so definitely braidable.  Wondering if anyone has a good
>> resource for tactile descriptions of how to do the French braid.  I
>> basically have the concept, but would like to learn the real way so it
>> stays
>> nice and tight all day long.
>>
>> Jessica
>>
>>
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