[blparent] And now there are two!

[Kate McEachern]

Hi,

I'll help where I can but my two are 6 and a half years apart so not quite 
dodler and newborn.  It was more like early grade schooler and newborn but 
some ishues were the same.

For one my two share a room so I have to send them for bed at different 
times.  In the beginning because my oldest liked to look at the baby we had 
her in our bed.  The travel was hard in the beginning because my oldest was 
in a booster and I had to have an infent carseet for the baby so I didn't 
take boeth unless I had to.  The bus was doable from the beginning so we did 
that more than cabs or TOPS.  I still have ishues since I'm now a single 
parent because they don't like doing the same things so some times one has 
to wait then the other waits when the other has a turn doing what she likes. 
Sybling ishues were not too bad though my oldest got upset at first with how 
much attention the baby was getting but she got over it quick.  I will think 
more about it and poest more later but hope this helps some.
Kate
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Bose" <jen10514 at gmail.com>
To: "blparent" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2012 2:34 PM
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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