[nfbwatlk] Fwd: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
I can't believe this kind of thing is still going on!!!  Sometimes it seems 
like things are slowly going backward for blind persons in many ways.

I had trouble at first breast-feeding Lynden because the first milk was 
yellowy stuff that she didn't want.  So we gave her Pediolyte, and they sent 
us home with a whole flat of pediolyte, that she didn't like either.  After 
a couple months, she still wasn't liking the milk, so we put her on bottled 
milk.

But, thank goodness, no CPS ever entered the picture.  My dr. even had the 
nurses put info on a cassette for me to take home.  When I think about it 
now, we were really lucky to have an open-minded dr.  I think he would have 
helped us protest if CPS had come our way.

Now Lynden is 29 and working on her doctorate in Occupational Therapy.  She 
is currently doing a field work rotation for twelve weeks at Brian Hospital 
in Lincoln, NE.  She will graduate in Dec. of 11.

But I remember worrying that someone would call CPS on us and take her away. 
Thank goodness it never happened.
Thanks
Lauren
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Mello" <mike at mello.com>
To: "NFB of Washington Talk Mailing List" <nfbwatlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 11:09 PM
Subject: [nfbwatlk] Fwd: [Chapter-presidents] Help us to bring Mikaela home


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> Sugar & Spice
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> And Everything Nice
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> That is what little Girls Are Made Of
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> Erica and Blake, a young couple awaiting the birth of their first child 
> with joy and happiness. BabyMikaela  was born at 12:45pm, May 21. Not 
> unlike many new mothers Erica experienced some
> difficulty in her first breast feeding ofMikaela, she called the nurse for 
> some advise. By 6:00pm child protective services arrived at the hospital 
> to say the parents could not takeMikaela  home, unless
> they had a sighted person to live with them.
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> In all the investigations, blindness is the only reason sited for the 
> parents not being allowed to leave with their new baby girl.
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> The Missouri affiliate has hired an attorney at $250 per hour, and her 
> assistant at $85 per hour to bring Mikaela home where she belongs!
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> Please help with any donations possible to unite this family. You may stop 
> by the Missouri table, B 114 in the exhibit hall, or come by our 
> delegation.
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> We, the National Federation of the Blind can bring Mikaela home to her 
> parents where she belongs! Thank you for any help you can give.
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> ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================
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> Michael J. Mello
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> mike at mello.com
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> (208) 301-0565
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