[blparent] passing the baby

[Nikki]

    I would have to agree with Jo Elizabeth.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 11:58 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] passing the baby

Hi.  I might get yelled at for saying this, since obviously it goes against
the majority.  But when I had a small  baby and I was in a group of trusted
friends or family, I would let her be passed from one person to another, as
long as she wasn't fussing about it.  I felt that it was a way for her to
get to be more secure with people, and everybody enjoyed her tremendously.
I knew that since there were plenty of responsible adults around, she was
going to be fine.  I kept the diaper bag with me so that nobody could feed
or change her without coming to me first, and people are usually more than
ready to give the baby back when she needs a meal or a diapering.  So while
I didn't know where she was every single second, I could usually keep pretty
close track because of the sounds she made or the way people would coo and
sweet talk her--grown-ups truly sound like idiots when there's a baby
around.  When she got older, she made plenty of noise on her own.  Then I
felt it was good to let her roam around freely, since there were a lot of
people keeping an eye on her, and it was a chance for her not to be right by
my side all the time.  She'd come back often to sort of check in for a hug
and a kiss, then go off again.

So the other option is, if you're among people you trust, sit back and
relax, take a little break, and let others love on your baby.  A baby can
never get too much affection, and I don't think mine picked up more germs
than normal by getting held a lot and passed around.  She was insanely
healthy till she went to preschool, but that's another story.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Sheila Leigland" <sleigland at bresnan.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:44 AM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] passing the baby

> I used a front carrier and because I checked on how he was holding his 
> head, people didn't tend to take him from me.
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