[blparent] New Baby

[sharon howerton]

Congratulations, Si. As I have done on this list many times, I invite you to 
my Hadley "office hours" chat on Wednesday afternoons at 1 PM Central. I 
teach a parenting series at Hadley, and the chat I mentioned came out of a 
seminar some of us blind faculty did back in the summer called Parenting 
Blind: Tips from the Trenches which is available as an archived seminar at
hadley.edu/seminar
This office hours chat is simply a place where parents/grandparents/parents 
to be, etc, can chat about their concerns or questions and perhaps get some 
advice from some of us who are parents. If you or anyone would like more 
information, please feel fre to email me at
sharon at hadley.edu
We will be on break from Dec 21 to Jan 7 so our last chat of the year is 
wednesday, Dec 19, but you or anyone would be welcome to join us any time 
whether you are my student or a student of Hadley.
Good luck with the little one!
Sharon Howerton, Instructor
The Hadley School for the Blind
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Siera Ray" <sieradream at gmail.com>
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 4:48 PM
Subject: [blparent] New Baby


> Hi everyone,
>
> I've been a lurker here for quite awhile. I finally join you on the other 
> side of the baby bridge. My daughter Ayla arrived Thursday morning. She 
> weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces, 20 inches long. She's a little miracle 
> for me.
>
> As a blind parent, I'm finding the transition surprisingly easy. We're 
> struggling with breastfeeding a bit and I'm more exhausted than I've ever 
> been before, but as for diaper changes and all that, so far, so good. We 
> already had one blowout and although mom was there to help me through it, 
> it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Gross, but it's different when 
> it's your child. In my opinion anyway.
>
> I'm primarily a single parent. There is no father here to help me. That 
> situation is a whole other can of worms I'm too exhausted to get into. So 
> any and all advice is welcome. I save all posts I find here that I think I 
> might need down the line, and I have to say, you guys have some brilliant 
> ideas.
>
> Si
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