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

Fri Feb 6 14:40:44 UTC 2015

Good point, they have no insentive to help.

Yes, I'm hesitating on your second option unless there was a very careful
legal process. I could have done this a long time ago.

Michelle

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From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Star Gazer
via blparent
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2015 5:25 AM
To: 'Danielle Antoine'; 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried
ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things

			Find out where they get their funding. If it's govd
funded and they get paid whether or not they provide a service, then they
have no insentive to help you. 
Also, and you'd want to be sure of the legalities of this is having a friend
donate semen and insert it yourself. As a guy, I'd hesitate on this option
but you may find someone willing to do this.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Danielle
Antoine via blparent
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2015 12:47 AM
To: Jo Elizabeth Pinto; Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] Question for Single folks who may have tried
ArtificialInsemination, IVF or similar things

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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