[blparent] A disturbing situation

Tue Jul 6 04:47:26 UTC 2010

Joe elizabeth in regards to your sighted friend and all others, it drives me
crazy when someone makes comments referring to blind mom's or parents.  We
wmight drop our baby or worse.  Well, if everyone would just take a moment
and look around, everyone is able to drop a baby.  It happens everyday in
every culture.  We don't have the market on making mistakes with our
children.  
When Gab was a few days I crashed into the wall and bumped her head.   My
sister-in-law crashed into the wall when her son was a week old and broke
his arm (she is sighted).  It just happens and it's no one's fault.
Now, I'll get off my horse and go to bed. V

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 10:04 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] A disturbing situation

Hi.  Sorry, I did kind of take it personally.  The whole situation is 
terribly upsetting, but it's true, you never know what people will get in 
their heads.  Most everyone that I've mentioned this to has been appalled 
and horrified at what has happened to the baby and her parents.  But I do 
have one sighted friend who completely shocked me because he said he could 
kind of see the point of the social workers.  He said, "You know, lack of 
sleep, and you're worn out, you could fall with the baby, or something could

happen."  I said I didn't have any problems with Sarah, and he pointed out 
that her dad is sighted.  I told him that I got home from the hospital on a 
Wednesday night, and the sighted dad went back to work Saturday morning, so 
we had two days.  And that was only because I had a Cesarean delivery, and 
we have steep stairs that I was having trouble getting up and down.  Then my

friend kind of backed off and said, well, you have a point.  But you never 
know who will get the notion that the poor little baby was protected from 
some impending disaster.  Still, my prayers, and those of my church, are 
that justice prevails on July 20.

Jo Elizabeth

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From: "Sharin" <coffeemommy at verizon.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 9:36 AM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] A disturbing situation

> OK, think maybe you took my comment a little too hard. I was commenting to
> everyone, not you personally. It is tempting to get the media involved so
> everyone knows how horribly these parents have been treated. I was only
> making a couple of points. I think we're all upset about this, to put it
> mildly, no reason to let them divide and conquer. :).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 11:20 AM
> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] A disturbing situation
>
> Give me a break already.  I wasn't second guessing anybody, or telling the
> lawyers how to do their job.  I just said that the media might not be as
> interested later, which is true, because stories that make the news are
> those that happen in the moment.  Of course the priority is getting the 
> baby
>
> back home with her parents, and I wasn't suggesting otherwise.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Sharin" <coffeemommy at verizon.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 03, 2010 7:31 AM
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] A disturbing situation
>
>> I think they will if a law suit is filed. The priority right now is
>> getting
>> the parents and baby back together. Anything else comes after. We should
>> try
>> to look at this from the perspective of the parents. If they haven't gone
>> to
>> the media and are choosing to follow the advice of their lawyers, who are
>> we
>> to second guess that? Also, who knows what spin some ignorant reporter
>> might
>> put on it?
>>
>> Sharin
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
>> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 7:03 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] A disturbing situation
>>
>> I understand that the lawyers have requested no media, and that's fine.
>> But
>>
>> the media won't be interested in the story after the baby is back home
>> with
>> her parents.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
>> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 4:41 PM
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] A disturbing situation
>>
>>> They said no media.  This is the request of the lawyers involved.  The
>>> media
>>> can have it after the baby is safely at home. V
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] 
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of Karla Hudson
>>> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 12:39 PM
>>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>>> Subject: [blparent] A disturbing situation
>>>
>>> The more I hear of this baby being removed from her parents so soon I
>>> become
>>> more and more angry. I almost felt as though I had a similar situation
>>> with
>>> my first child. Thank goodness for my doula and friends strength that 
>>> got
>>> my
>>> husband and I through the annoying ignorant hospital staffs hoops. You
>>> know
>>> I have friends who are both blind who raised ten children. They are now
>>> 89
>>> and 90. The courts should consult with this couple to find out if it is
>>> possible to raise children when you are blind. We see so much on the 
>>> news
>>> about drug and alcoholic parents and hearing that these people are being
>>> restricted access to their child because they are blind just makes you
>>> feel
>>> sick. The parents have missed the important bonding stage and no doubt
>>> has
>>> missed the option to nurse the baby. This list should send an address
>>> where
>>> donations can be made for the legal costs. I hope the hospital is taken
>>> for
>>> a huge amount of money. The emotional drain on the parents has to be
>>> enormous. The media should be involved here as well. If these parents 
>>> are
>>> just on the scale of everyday people who happen to be blind then the 
>>> baby
>>> should be back with them now. Can the NFB get some media attention for
>>> this
>>> story? There should be pressure on the CPS in their state and the person
>>> who
>>> made this decision should lose their job.
>>>
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