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

Tue Jun 29 20:16:14 UTC 2010

Make me three!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net>
To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring 
Mikaelahome


> How would one find the Independence Market at the National Center for the 
> Blind to place an order?  Is there a Web site?
>
> Thanks,
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Deborah Kent Stein" <dkent5817 at att.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:30 AM
> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring 
> Mikaelahome
>
>>
>>
>> As a small step toward educating professionals, the pamphlet we've been 
>> working on, "Parenting without Sight," is finally done.  Copies will be 
>> on hand at the NFB convention or can be ordered from the Independence 
>> Market at the National Center for the Blind.  Many people on this list 
>> contributed their ideas and photos, so this is very much a community 
>> effort to help ensure that blind parents are treated with respect and 
>> families are not needlessly shattered.
>>
>> Debbie
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Sharin" <coffeemommy at verizon.net>
>> To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 11:17 AM
>> 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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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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