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

Tue Jun 29 16:31:42 UTC 2010

I agree a hundred percent. Sharon, I can empathize with your NICU staff
issues.  It's one thing being a new mother, hormones and all, but it's a
doublewhammy when you have to be both student and teacher and constantly be
bombarded with questions and false assumptions.  One thing I've offered to
do is come back to the NICU with Michael and do a presentation on my
experiences, what and what not to do when dealing with parents with
disabilities, and so on.
Leslie

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Sharin
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:17 AM
To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring
Mikaelahome

The hospital should definitely be sued, when this is all over and she is
home with her parents where she belongs. And the nurse should be fired. The
CPS workers should also be given some kind of disciplinary action; they are
supposed to be able to correctly assess situations. 

This really hit close to home for me. When my twins were in the NICU, there
were 2 nurses who wrote down every question I asked and said I would of
course always need to have someone at home with me and the boys. It got to
the point that I was not able to bond with my boys during the little time I
had to spend with them each day and I was afraid of exactly this happening.
I went to the mead dr. of the NICU and she arranged a meeting with the
nurses, a social worker, and a couple of other dr.s. I was an exhausted new
mother and so all that happened was a reprimanding of the nurses. I always
thought maybe I had been a bit paranoid, hormones and all, at the time. But
reading this tells me that we have to somehow increase the awareness of the
capability of disabled parents so that this situation will never again
occur. BTW, some of the other nurses helped me to learn how to nurse both
babies at once, a difficult task with preemies who aren't so good at
latching on; it took a lot of practice, trial and error. Now my boys are the
biggest in their class so I guess blind mothers can nurse just as good as
sighted ones, eh?

Sharin

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Tammy, Paul and Colyn
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:53 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring
Mikaelahome

Hi,

the bonding time with not just her mother but both parents is what I thought

of when I read this.  It's sickening that people feel that blindness is a 
reason to take children from parents, and first time parents at that.  What 
first time parent knows how to nurse and who isn't nervous about taking care

of a brand new baby?

Tammy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Cooks" <elizabethcooks at comcast.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring 
Mikaelahome

>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!
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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