[blparent] Re(lost babies): French Braid

Sun Sep 6 23:02:50 UTC 2009

That is such a cute story!
Barbara

If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of whom 
you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.

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From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 11:44 PM
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Re(lost babies):  French Braid

> He would have been Joel Michael.  We didn't know for sure yet whether the 
> baby was a boy or a girl, so if a girl came, she would have been Jamie 
> Elizabeth.  But I always felt in my heart we'd lost a boy.
>
> An aunt of mine told me once that she was talking to one of her sisters 
> about losing three babies to miscarriage before she finally gave birth to 
> her two children, who are now young adults.  At the time, her son was only 
> three or four years old.  She said she told her sister she always wondered 
> who the lost babies would have been, and it made her sad.  Her toddler son 
> stopped playing, walked right up to her, and said in all seriousness, 
> "Don't worry, Mommy.  It was me.  I couldn't decide if I wanted to get 
> born or not, so I didn't.  But now I came."  And he ran off to play as if 
> it were nothing.  I didn't hear all of this firsthand, but my aunt 
> believes she got her lost baby in the end.  God works in mysterious ways.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify 
> the hunters.--African Proverb
>
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Re(lost babies):  French Braid
>
>> What was his name? V
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:27 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: [blparent] Re(lost babies): French Braid
>>
>> I lost my baby in March of 1994.  He would have turned fifteen this 
>> month.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify
>> the hunters.--African Proverb
>>
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>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com>
>> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:21 PM
>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid
>>
>>> The baby we lost on Dec. 7, 2000 was Sage Dakota.
>>> Barbara
>>>
>>> If wisdom's ways you wisely seek, five things observe with care:  of 
>>> whom
>>> you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.
>>>
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>> Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 3:16 PM
>>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid
>>>
>>>> We called ours Barret.  That's what the couple called their baby in the
>>>> movie Love Story. V
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>>> On
>>>> Behalf Of Elizabeth Cooks
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:25 PM
>>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid
>>>>
>>>> I was thirteen weeks in June of 2006.  The weird thing is, i feel in my
>>>> heart that my little Joshua is the baby i lost back then.
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>>>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 7:57 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Ya and I miscarried on Mother's day in 1991.  After that, for years, I
>>>>> hated
>>>>> that day and had trouble celebrating it.  When Gab was born in 1999, 
>>>>> it
>>>>> made
>>>>> things a lot better.  I was 14 weeks. V
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>>> On
>>>>> Behalf Of Elizabeth Cooks
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 6:31 AM
>>>>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] French Braid
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm so sorry, Jessica.  I know what it's like to lose a baby through
>>>>> miscarriage, but not after birth.  I'm glad you got ot say good-bye,
>>>>> though.
>>>>>
>>>>> You never get to do that with a miscariage.
>>>>> ----- 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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