[blparent] Introduction

[Amanda Matheny]

That'd be awesome! I'd like to meet her. Even if not for babysitting I
like to meet and hang out with new people. If I did use her as a
babysitter, I'd need to get to know her first, but that'd be cool.

My son was actually a little late, and there's a funny story on that.

My original due date was March 23, then my OBGYN bumped it to March
21. However, I wasn't even really having many Braxton-hicks
contractions and I wasn't very dilated, so my doc scheduled me to be
induced April 1 if I didn't have him by then. This was when I was
still in Utah. Thinking he'd be born by then, my mom and grandma
bought plane tickets to see us back in February. I told my mom I was
going to be induced but decided to keep it a secret from my grandma.
When she saw me, still with my bump and no baby in my arms, she was a
little shocked and was really concerned that he wouldn't be born
before they had to leave. My mom and I had kept the secret well, but
she accidentally spilled the beans to the car rental person before I
told my grandma. It annoyed me at first, but then we all had a big
laugh. It took a while for my grandma to register that we'd withheld
that surprise from her. They arrived the day before I was to be
induced and were the ones who took me to the hospital. That was pretty
cool!

On 5/27/12, Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni <rovadia82 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very cool. Alex was born on April 2nd. When we told family that he was born
> slightly early, they thought we were pulling a late april fools joke on
> them. Haha
> I have a good friend in Austin who is blind, she doesn't have kids yet but
> is great for babysitting if you ever need anyone.
> Ronit
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Amanda Matheny
> Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 11:11 AM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Introduction
>
> Mine is technically 14 months in 4 days, on June 1. He was an April Fools
> baby. I'm in Texas right now, just outside San Antonio but moving to Austin
> in July.
>
> On 5/27/12, Ronit Ovadia Mazzoni <rovadia82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Amanda,
>> Welcome to the list. My son is just about 14 months as well, he will
>> be 14 months in one week. So we are likely going through similar
>> situations. Where do you live? My family and I live in northern
>> California, in the bay area. I am totally blind and my husband and son
>> are
> sighted.
>> Welcome to the list and ask anything you are curious about. This is a
>> great resource.
>> Ronit
>>
>> On May 26, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Amanda Matheny wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> This sounds like a perfect list for me. I and my husband are blind
>>> parents of a sweet, wonderful 14 month old little boy. He is really
>>> amazing, but I must admit there are times when I wished I could ask
>>> other blind parents for advice, and now I can! I am also hoping to
>>> network with other blind parents near me, and possibly ones with
>>> children around the same age as my son. Maybe we can even put
>>> together some play dates. My son is fully sighted. I am legally
>>> blind, but do have some usable vision, and my husband is total. I
>>> look forward to getting to know you all better.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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-- 
Amanda Matheny
Twitter: http://twitter.com/zhuuraanpub or, if you think you know me
well enough, request my private twitter username.
Website coming soon!