[blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaelahome

[Elizabeth Cooks]

I think the hospital should be sued for this and the nurse fired.  I want to 
just strangle those people who act like this, and the baby has lost precious 
bonding time with her mother.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring 
Mikaelahome


> This just puts me in tears.  Is it really going to cost all that much? 
> What about the ACLU?  Is there any place to make a donation by credit card 
> for people who will not be attending the convention?  I can't believe she 
> isn't home yet!
>
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 8:43 PM
> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home
>
>> Here is an update, we all have been waiting to hear. Veronica
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org
>> [mailto:chapter-presidents-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Debbie Wunder
>> Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 8:27 PM
>> To: Chapter Presidents
>> Subject: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home
>>
>> Sugar & Spice
>>
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>>
>> And Everything Nice
>>
>> That is what little Girls Are Made Of
>>
>>
>>
>> Erica and Blake, a young couple awaiting the birth of their first child 
>> with
>> joy and happiness. BabyMikaela  was born at 12:45pm, May 21. Not unlike 
>> many
>> new mothers Erica experienced some difficulty in her first breast feeding
>> ofMikaela, she called the nurse for some advise. By 6:00pm child 
>> protective
>> services arrived at the hospital to say the parents could not takeMikaela
>> home, unless they had a sighted person to live with them.
>>
>> In all the investigations, blindness is the only reason sited for the
>> parents not being allowed to leave with their new baby girl.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Missouri affiliate has hired an attorney at $250 per hour, and her
>> assistant at $85 per hour to bring Mikaela home where she belongs!
>>
>>
>>
>> Please help with any donations possible to unite this family. You may 
>> stop
>> by the Missouri table, B 114 in the exhibit hall, or come by our 
>> delegation.
>>
>>
>> We, the National Federation of the Blind can bring Mikaela home to her
>> parents where she belongs! Thank you for any help you can give.
>>
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