[blparent] Accessible gender reveal ideas for a blind person

[dacia.luck at gmail.com]

Thanks, these are lots of great ideas. I am planning on making it more of a party. And I think some of the ideas please have given will work. They are both visual and nine at the same time, and most of them include food, always a plus. LOL
Dacia

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> On Jan 26, 2018, at 11:20 AM, Melissa Ann Riccobono via BlParent <blparent at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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> Subject: [blparent] Accessible gender reveal ideas for a blind person
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> 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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