[blparent] child smiling

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Her baby cried at night because of recurring ear infections, thus the tubes 
in the ears.  The ear infections also delayed talking, and since Rebecca had 
read the study that said children of blind parents talked sooner than other 
children, she felt bad that her daughter didn't.

Jo Elizabeth

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, 
unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into 
advance."--Franklin D. Roosevelt

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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 4:40 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] child smiling

> What does the study have to do with crying babies at night?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC)
> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:00 AM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] child smiling
>
> Not my kid. Took a set of eartubes proceeded by many sleepless nights, 
> much
> crying and frustration on everybody's part.
> I say this because I believed that study too and when it didn't happen,
> assumed I sucked.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Erin Rumer
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2011 11:52 PM
> To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [blparent] child smiling
>
> I have always made a point to smile at my baby a lot and make different
> funny faces at him so that hopefully I'm smiling at him when he's smiling 
> at
> me and so that he just sees mom as silly and fun.  Dawson is 7.5 months 
> now
> and he's always been a very smiley baby with very expressive faces and I'd
> like to believe that aside from his personal character all my smiling and
> playing with him making funny faces really helped him develop all the 
> great
> looks he gives.
>
> Additionally, I have made a point to praise Dawson every time he
> communicates with me verbally or by touching me to get my attention which
> has really aided him in being a more verbal and hands-on baby.  That helps
> mom a ton!  I can't remember where I heard this but there have been 
> studies
> ton on children of at least one blind parent and on average these children
> tend to start talking sooner than children of parents who are sighted. 
> This
> makes a lot of sense since they can't just point and grunt at something 
> they
> want, but rather they have to be more clear in there verbal communication 
> if
> they are to actually get their message across.
>
> Erin Rumer
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of jan wright
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 5:32 AM
> To: blparent
> Subject: [blparent] child smiling
>
> Hi, you can also feel which way his head is facing and imagine what he 
> might
> be looking at over there.
> Since my youngest son spend most of the time around blind people, he had a
> delay in focusing on objects. But, honestly, either way, they catch up and
> it is no problem.
> Sometimes smiling is involuntary, anyway and sighted people think that the
> baby is smiling at them, but it is really that they have gas or something
> else.
> So, don't stress out!
> Things will be fine and like the others said, your baby will give you 
> other
> clues to what they are thinking/feeling.
>
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