[blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things

[Michelle Creedy]

Yes, I may just find a little way. You never know!

Michelle


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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Danielle
Antoine via blparent
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 9:48 PM
To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto; Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried
ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things

Slip it in your sermon IWIM. MD included in that list as well.

On 2/5/15, Danielle Antoine <singingmywayin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe not but you can certainly find a way to slip in your sermon. I 
> know I would. Bleh! Bleh! to that doctor. I found out a long time ago 
> a Master's or PhD. doesn't say much about good ol' common sense and 
> compassion. Forget homework apparently. I'd call up the National 
> center I try to speak with someone about this. Stupidity at it's 
> brightest!
>
>
>
> On 2/5/15, Jo Elizabeth Pinto via blparent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> Michelle, I'm gagging along with you.  I wish I could say I'm 
>> surprised by the narrow-minded attitudes of sighted people in general 
>> and the medical community in particular, but I'm not.  I've been 
>> through eight years of infertility treatments, and although I stopped 
>> short of considering artificial insemination or IVF as options for 
>> myself and eventually conceived a baby and carried her to term--to my 
>> utter shock and complete joy--I understand your agony to the extent 
>> that one human being can empathize with another.
>>
>> Beyond empathy and strengthened resolve to educate a woefully 
>> ignorant world
>>
>> one idiot at a time, I can't offer you much except encouragement to 
>> keep looking.  Do you have to get a referral in Canada before you can 
>> go to a fertility clinic, or can you visit one on your own?  What 
>> about clinics in the U.S.?  Is there an organization in Canada that 
>> advocates for the blind?
>>
>> Also, when I was having trouble with difficult family members who 
>> doubted my
>>
>> ability to be a parent and wanted to take my baby away from me at 
>> birth, I contacted a wonderful organization called Through the 
>> Looking Glass.
>> It's
>> an advocacy group for parents with disabilities.  I don't know if the 
>> services of that organization would include would-be disabled parents 
>> who want to try artificial insemination, or if they serve Canadian 
>> parents, but
>>
>> it couldn't hurt to contact them at www.lookingglass.org.  They might 
>> know where to point you, at least.
>>
>> Best of luck, and don't give up!
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, 
>> you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round 
>> and full at evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Michelle Creedy via blparent
>> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2015 8:11 PM
>> To: blparent at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried 
>> ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things
>>
>> Hello List
>>
>>
>>
>> I know this is a somewhat personal topic, but I need some advice. In 
>> my single state, I've been pondering having a baby. I'm now off 
>> disability and all that and feel that I would like to consider 
>> artificial insemination.
>> I
>> just had the most distressing thing happen to me! I'd gone to see my 
>> family doctor who was supportive about the whole thing. He promised 
>> to make a referral for me. I called my doctor to ask where the 
>> referral was too. He said that the clinics all said I wouldn't pass 
>> the social test because I'm blind. It was the single and blind thing 
>> together. Made some remark about babies choking and all that. I told 
>> him about all the capable blind parents I know. I was hoping he may 
>> try to advocate on my behalf but no. You wouldn't know when the baby 
>> was choking. He seemed supportive and I don't know whether he just 
>> didn't know what to say. He clames he believes in me and has had my 
>> file sitting on his desk not sure how to call me.
>> Apparently,
>> the doctors all believe I'd not pass because I'd need 24/7 care with me.
>> That honestly almost made me gag!
>>
>>
>>
>> I plan on calling around to fertility clinics tomorrow. I also plan 
>> on talking to my lawyer.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm in Canada in case anyone has Canadian experience with this.
>>
>>
>>
>> God bless the Federation as I try to write Sunday's sermon! That's 
>> not going all that well. All I feel like doing is standing up in the 
>> pulpit and ranting about sighted people's attitudes about blindness 
>> but we all know I'll be a good little minister and not do that.
>>
>>
>>
>> Michelle
>>
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