[blparent] Accessible gender reveal ideas for a blind person

[Melissa Ann Riccobono]

Here are a couple of ideas. It depends a little on whether you just want to
share the reveal with your husband, or whether you want to have more of an
event for family and friends. If it's just your husband, perhaps he could
come to the ultrasound appointment with you and the technician can just tell
you what the gender of the baby is. Yes, I know, incredibly old fashion, and
probably not what you had in mind since you're asking for reveal advice. I
know my cousin's daughter had a baker bake a cake for her gender reveal. The
baker put pink inside the cake if it was a girl, or blue inside for a boy.
Of course, my relative had to drop off an envelope from the ultrasound tech
that had the gender inside. You could do this, but perhaps you could ask the
baker to make pink cupcakes for a girl and blue cookies for a boy. Maybe she
could pack them in a wrapped box so your husband could not see them. Then
you could open the box together and see what you find. You could have this
as more of an event, or just a couple of treats for the two of you to share.
You could have someone wrap up a dress for a girl and an outfit with pants
for a boy. You could even share the gender with a friend who knows braille,
and the friend could braille the gender so you are the one who reads it to
your husband. If your friend is crafty, he or she could even braille boy or
girl in puff paint on a onsie. 
Hope these ideas help. Mark and I felt very strongly that we wanted to be
surprised, so never found out the gender ahead of time. Although I certainly
had a very strong feeling that Elizabeth was going to be a girl, and should
have known Austin was going to be a boy because I felt so strongly that if
he was a boy his name just had to be Austin.
Congratulations on your baby!
Melissa

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From: BlParent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Dacia Cole
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Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2018 5:34 PM
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Subject: [blparent] Accessible gender reveal ideas for a blind person

Good afternoon everyone, my husband and I are expecting our first child in
August, and I think we want to know what the gender is. He cited, but I am
blind, and want to try and find a way that is creative and will allow me to
actually participate in the reveal and find out the gender. Any ideas? A lot
of the ideas I am finding a very visual.
Dacia

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