[blparent] Intro from a new mommy

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi, Bernadetta.  I'm so glad you have a healthy baby boy.  You're right, in 
the end, a healthy baby is all that matters.  My labor and delivery didn't 
go as planned, either, but I have a little girl who turned four last month, 
and she's the best surprise that ever happened to me.  I live in Colorado 
and work from home as a braille proofreader.

By the way, I really like your name.  "Bernadette" means "brave as a bear" 
In french, so I guess Bernadetta is a derivitave.  I considered giving my 
daughter the name Bernadette just because I liked the meaning so much.

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: "Bernadetta Pracon" <bernadetta_pracon at samobile.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2012 9:19 PM
To: <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Intro from a new mommy

> Hi Tammy,
> Thanks for introducing yourself.
> No, I'm not blaming myself for the preeclampsia at all. I know there 
> aren't any specific factors that cause it as far as the pros can tell. I'm 
> just glad they caught it in time; I had no idea about it until I went for 
> one of my routine prenatal visits and discovered that my blood pressure 
> was through the roof.
> I know I may be stepping on a landmine here, but my personal opinion is 
> that people really shouldn't blame themselves for various things that 
> occur during a pregnancy, such as it resulting in a CSection, or any 
> conditions that may crop up while carrying a little one. It's sad when 
> someone gets upset over not having been able to give birth naturally, etc. 
> etc. It seems so trivial; Such a small price to pay when the end result is 
> a healthy baby.
> I myself planned on natural birth, was totally against being induced into 
> labor, and was entirely set on exclusively breastfeeding. Well, wouldn't 
> you know it--I ended up having to be induced, the induction failed so I 
> had a CSection, and my baby had to be suplemented with the evil formula 
> because he couldn't get the hang of breastfeeding and was losing weight 
> rapidly. Go figure. All that considered though, I have no qualms over how 
> it all went. Sure, things didn't go as planned, but do they ever? All in 
> all, as I've mentioned before, my baby is healthy and that's all that 
> matters. People come into this wold in various ways, under differing 
> circumstances. Yet we're all here, all the same
>
> All Best,
>
> Bernadetta
>
>
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