[blparent] lights and sighted children

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

I probably would have opted out of the ointment, but I didn't think of 
saying it, and then I went to an emergency C-section, and everything got 
crazy.  I didn't like that part of the hospital experience--I'd been up for 
about thirty-eight hours straight, then I had the C-section, and I was worn 
out.  Every three seconds, somebody seemed to be coming in, bouncing around 
like Tigger and poking and prodding at me or the baby.  I don't know what 
all they did to us before I was alert enough to start asking questions.

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: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 12:57 PM
To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] lights and sighted children

> We opted out of the ointment as well.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of jan wright
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 11:41 PM
> To: blparent
> Subject: [blparent] lights and sighted children
>
> thanks to all who responded.
> Good information about the eyes and sight development: thanks.
> and, yes, keeping them off is cheaper and preferable, but not anymore.
> And, I get excited knowing what Azaan might be seeing and might want to
> interact with.
> Hey, I just might have to set an alarm: -- "lights off at this time"
> to remind me.
> I like the timer on your lights idea, but don't know how to do it.
> someone's DH must be a "Bob the Builder" kind of guy. (smile)
>  (smile)
> We opted out of the ointment because it is to prevent infection from
> sexually transmitted diseases. since many mothers either don't know that
> they have Ghonoreah or Klimydia, Doctors give it to all the babies -- just
> in case, just like the Vitamin K shot to clot the blood, in case you are
> going to circumcize or the HepB vaccination --[do you know how it is
> transmitted and the actual likelyhood of your
> infant getting this disease??],   which is another thread entirely.
> My point is that this ointment does not need to be given to babies whose
> parents are certain that they don't have these two STDs because Mom has 
> been
> tested during pregnancy and no one has been fooling around. I am a bit
> offended that the assumption is that I or my husband are too ignorant to
> know whether we have an STD or too irresponsible to care.  There are also
> side effects to the ointment, if you want to google them.... for any preg
> parent.
> anyway, the information about sight development is quite helpful!
> THX.
>
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