[blparent] And now there are two!

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Hi, Jen, congratulations on the birth of your daughter.  I can't really tell 
you anything about having two children because I only have one, plus two 
stepkids who are nearly grown.  Tara Isabel is a beautiful name, as is 
Abigail.  Does Tulsi have a particular meaning?  I've never heard it before. 
Anyway, best wishes, and take time for yourself when you can.

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: "Jennifer Bose" <jen10514 at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 12:34 PM
To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [blparent] And now there are two!

> Hi, fellow blind parents.
>
> I post pretty infrequently on this list, but I've learned a great deal
> from all of you. I'm Jennifer Bose and I live in Brookline,
> Massachusetts, with my husband Sunish Gupta, who worked several years
> ago on the project to build the early model of the KNFB Reader. Yes,
> I'm bragging on him a little. Naming our babies has been interesting
> since we've tried to find names that would represent their
> backgrounds; I'm American and he grew up in India. We have our
> 2-1/2-year-old daughter, Abigail Tulsi, and as of last Friday we have
> a newborn daughter, Tara Isabel. We're both very happy with two.
>
> I remember asking this list how blind parents manage two children and
> we got great responses. It's not that I don't believe it can be done;
> I know we're certainly not the first. My head knows that there are all
> sorts of solutions, but my emotions play tricks on me. Well, I'll put
> that down to normal parental anxiety and ask any of you who have
> multiple children to tell me everything I need to know. I'll take any
> tips you care to send along, especially about managing a toddler and a
> newborn. My husband and I are generally pretty independent and have
> done very well with one child, but with two, we're in a new zone. So
> please let me know what you've done or what you would suggest for us.
> I'm grateful for any and all help.
>
> Thanks so much. This is a tremendous resource.
>
> Jen
>
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