Congrats on the baby! As a VI person, I was thinking as a gift opening game, maybe everyone in attendance can be blindfolded. Then you open each gift and describe it. Once you describe the gift, others can shout out what they think it is. Then you can choose someone you agree with if that's what you think the gift is. Attendees are not allowed to guess their own gift they brought.
Congratulations Cayla! I’m on the other side of the blind spectrum with some usable vision. I am a mom of a 3 year old boy. I can’t read but I am learning braille for this. I have to have people cut his nails and I don’t see if his face is dirty. On the plus side he is super independent and helps me a lot.
Hi Caylal ❤❤ Congratulations 😊 I'm not totally blind completely yet. But I have raised three boys on my own. I have always been legally blind. My vision now is significantly worse. My boys are currently 30, 26 and going on 28.
Oh my goodness Cayla, congratulations!!! As a fellow blind woman myself, I’m looking forward to seeing how you handle motherhood without sight, as I too would love to be a mother one day, so it would be such a great source of inspiration for me to be able to know what to expect. Sending you and your family so much love and positive energy 🤍
At the baby shower in lieu of cards you could ask guests to bring a small Disney Plushy from your registry (this way they don’t all bring the same one.) Or ask them to bring a small plushy of their favorite Disney Character. You would be able to feel the characters and know which one they are because of your love of Disney. Your daughter could hold/play with the plushy as she grows. It could be a way to share your love of Disney with her.
I would love to have a very long conversation with you, Cayla. I would like to tell you the story about how the personnel at the hospital after I gave birth the first time were thinking that I was not going to be able to take care of my baby. And I still had a good amount of vision at the time. One of the nurses aides came into give me a chance to spend time with my baby and told me they implicitly told her not to leave him alone with me.
Congratulations! We have more or less the same due date, and I’m a first-time parent, too! My partner and I lost our first pregnancy very early on during the spring/summer of last year. After 6 or so weeks of recovery after my D&C, we kept trying to conceive, and spent months waiting for something to “click” again. I did not have issues with infertility, but I most definitely think that saying it was traumatic for you is in no way an overstatement of how painful the experience can be. You and I have now made it through to the other side, and I can’t wait to meet our beautiful babies in due course.
I'm a legally blind mother of three. Two are mine one was adopted and I was a single mother too! Your child will be the most independent and lovable person in the universe! Go for it! was told if I was crazy for having children! But I took care them better than a visual Mom! Yes you are empowered. We are Love!. Don't give up your dreams and hopes!
First of all, congratulations Cayla. I am also blind, but not a mother yet. One thing that I just remembered though is that you can administer medicine with a syringe rather than a spoon.
I'm so excited for the future blind mom series. I unfortunately can't really give any suggestions regarding accessible baby things but I do have a general suggestion. You could probably get some great tips from taking VRT sessions. Pretty sure parenthood is something they can cover. So you'd learn how to take care of your kid safely and they'd also suggest accessible items as well. Regarding gift opening, you could either skip that all together or maybe just have the guests describe their gifts to you? I saw some better suggestions in the comments but I too find gift opening pretty boring. And regarding cards I'd just write in the invitation something like: Hey guys just a reminder I'm blind.... please no greeting cards it's such a waste of paper and money. In all honesty I think most people throw out cards anyway lol so they might pretty much always be a waste.
You're gonna do great Cayla. Just because we as vip/blind people can't see, doesnt mean we cant take care of ourselves let alone others. Congratulations you're going to be a great mom. Also thank you for sharing and also saying what your shirr says, because I didn't even know there was writing on it when watching your video.
Congratulations! I am so happy for you Carla. I had been following your channel for quite a while, always amazed by your courage and determination to live a normal life.
Congratulations! How exciting! 20 weeks! Halfway! Woot woot!!! Also when I felt those butterfly kicks for the first time! So incredibly special! ✨ I am totally blind and my little girl just turned 15 months. I am also a first time mom. I am 35 and a Christian mental health counselor. Although, I have not been working since baby girl came along. Actually going to be going back to work next month which will be hard on this momma! I have a cited husband, but I am home with baby girl all day while hubby is at work. Having this little one has been the greatest blessing in my life! And this is coming from a girl who really struggled to take the step to have a baby in the first place. With everything I have been through in my life, losing my sight suddenly as well as master school, and all that, bringing this baby into the world was the hardest thing I have ever done by a long margin. Lol! But I had a very tough pregnancy and delivery… Praying that your pregnancy goes so well and that you have a blessed and smooth delivery! And even with all of the difficulty, I would do it over again! There is nothing like having that little one in your life. It is truly a miracle! Love your channel and love the idea you have to share your experiences as a blind bomb! Is also some thing I’ve kicked around doing, but I will be so happy to share with you! Not sure how long comments can be on here, so I will continue with another comment. So excited for you! You are going to be such an incredible mom! Love and hugs on your blind momma journey! 23:45
Thank you so much!! Sounds like we are in pretty similar situations, you’re just a bit ahead of me. I’m definitely appreciating the advice. Good luck on going back to work!
@@CaylawithaC for sure! I am so glad! It seems that there are not many blind women who take the step into parenthood. At least, when I got pregnant, I was only able to find a couple of older women whose kids were now our age. It is so nice to connect with someone my age that is going through a similar experience! Thinking of you, and would love to talk more! Do you have an email I could send to?
Congratulations! I am so happy on this news that you are pregnant. God bless you with a sweet and healthy baby. I am too a patient of RP and am suffering from serious low vision problem. I am from Chitral, Pakistan..
Congratulations!! My baby will be 4 months this week. I'm visually impaired as part of my cp. My family had concerns and thought I wouldn't have kids. I always wanted to have kids. The pelvic checks are the hardest for me physically.
For our baby shower, we requested braille books instead of greeting cards. Individuals were able to write personal messages in the books, which was awesome! We thought it would be special for baby girl to read herself when she grows up… All of the love, and well wishes for her and her life. it also got us a really good start on a collection of books for baby girl. There are a couple of really great places you can order braille books online, and they are not any more expensive than buying them in print at target or whatever. My family got into it, and purchased lots of touchy-feely books and sound books as well. It is truly incredible What is available these days! 🙌🥰❤️ 23:45
haven’t watched yet but just wanted to send my biggest congratulations!! been waiting for this happy update for months since your infertility videos, so happy for you and Ethan!! :)
I had one friend who was totally blind and her advice to help hear the child is to give them pants that crinkle as they go. Sort of like those jogging or workout pants. That is when for they start walking around.
I just posted this on my LinkedIn as well as my Facebook page. Both do not have high numbers, but our personally selected people. I understand your concerns I live blind myself and can possibly imagine bringing a child into this house when I can barely handle my invisible hippopotamus :-) I wish you the best you will be in my prayers And God will hold you safely in the palm of his hand. I have total faith in that you’re the best always have been always will be. I’m sure you will be a fantastic mom. Take care of yourself.
Congratulations, Kayla I am so so happy for you and your husband! I’ve been praying and hoping that this day would come that I would see a video of you spreading the good news! I like the name of your channel to be maybe the baby girl Chronicles. No a couple of ideas here I can throw out. I like the idea of turning the opening of gifts at the baby shower as a game. Maybe what you could do is open up the gifts and. Maybe have you try to guess what the gift is and your guest have to say whether it’s hot or cold. Hot meaning you’re very very close to what the gift is. And cold you’re not close. No, I totally understand about getting greeting cards. Like you I would prefer not to get a greeting card because I can’t read them either. And usually they end up either sitting in my filing cabinet for years on end or eventually they end up in the trash. So I would suggest as an idea is instead of a card, maybe people can donate money to help with Baby expenses, Harriet. I hope that some of the suggestions will help. Again, Kayla I am so so excited for you and your husband! And I am definitely looking forward following you and your husband on your journey through your babies life! I also was just thinking, I was wondering if maybe one of the videos that you add to your baby journey videos, is your thoughts and research that you probably did on whether or not you had a concern if you’re newborn be blind or sided. I think that has always been one of my biggest concern is whether or not, my retinitis pigmentosa could be inherited to the baby wired by the baby. Sending you and your husband lots of love and big hugs
Thank you so much Steven!! And those are some really good ideas. It’s funny that you mentioned the suggestion about whether our baby would inherit my eye condition because I meant to talk about that in this video and completely forgot. I’ll have to address it in another one.
This is the BEST news! Congrats to both of you, Cayla! ❤ I hope everything will go as planned, motherhood is a biiig journey. Oh, and this video series would be lovely for me too as I have a blind baby girl. I was already thinking about how I would teach her the basics of taking care of a baby on her own.
I just watched the whole video finally. It’s daytime here, so once I put my baby down for the night, I’ll add my registry here with tips for you as I have recent experience. Do you guys know whether your baby will be sighted or not? Some items turned out to be useless for us because of my baby’s disability, but they are totally valid and useful otherwise.
@@CaylawithaC That's great to hear (not that she wouldn't be awesome nonetheless). BTW I did not have any issues conceiving, but I still had a hard time connecting to my baby even after she was born: she was what we thought colicy (as it turns out she was confused because of her blindness), I had issues with breastfeeding and our families all threw their ideas at me how to be able to 'put her down'. Now I finally have a good and meaningful relationship with her, I needed 6 months for this. All I wanted to say is that it's normal what you are feeling and you are not alone (I'm also a psychologist). So, to the list... I was taking notes during the day for you, I only have a few items though. Some are generally good for all mums, but I can see why it's especially useful for you. - Clothes with zippers are much easier to handle, or if you can get your hands on magnetic ones, those are the absolute best! I prefer pants over onsies during the day, it's easier to manage. - Bibs that are the full upper-body/sleeved type (raincoat material). We are doing baby lead weaning, I can save most clothes of hers from needing to be changed constantly. :D - The best item for bathing I found is the Anglecare Soft Touch Baby Bath Support, it has a protruding part between the legs so the baby won't slide downwards at all. - If you want to breastfeed exclusively: tiable nursing pillow (but in this case do not use a pacifier). The none-tiable ones are hard to manage, they slide everywhere all the time, so it's harder to keep them in place. - Portable changing mat: I think having a changing station is not necessary, it's even more hazardous as time goes by and babies become more mobile (especially if you can't easily track their movement). I'm using the Hauck Change Me, but we are going on early intervention programs 3 times a week too, so it's always in my backpack. - 3in1 strollers are pretty good with the newborn carrier car seats for the first while, but I'd invest in a good 360° swivel carseat with isofix if you have it in your car (not sure of the best brands over there). You can use isofix with the newborn carrier too. - We use a JBL Go 3 for music and bedtime stories (there are a lot of great Hungarian bands for children), but I heard there are really good Braille children books out there too. Or you can buy picture/board books which have tactile parts and no words written in them - you get to create the story. :D ie. with only a few words per page: - What Does Bunny Like (Touch&Feel) by Igloo Books www.amazon.com/What-Does-Bunny-Like-Touch/dp/178810367X - Little Frog (Touch&Explore) by Katie Saunders (might not be avaible on Amazon, but you can show this to relatives as an example) www.ebay.com/itm/304725123973 - Crinckly pants for when they can crawl :D
Speaking of incredible, I am going to tell you 23:45 the #1 thing that we could have never lived without when becoming parents! Well, we could have, but it would have been miserable. Baby Brezza! Baby Brezza! Baby Brezza! And I will say it one more time… Baby Brezza!!!! 😂 It is a formula machine that mixes a perfectly warmed bottle at the touch of a button. A.k.a.. Pure magic! Lol! When you are so sleep deprived and can barely manage to find the kitchen, let alone a bottle, this thing is a lifesaver! It also works with your smart phone, so you can open up the app to change settings and adjust bottle size if you lose track of what the bottle machine is set to. You can also put a bottle in place to start a bottle with your phone via Wi-Fi while you are changing a diaper or what not. Baby starts crying, momma grabs phone and starts the bottle, momma gets baby and changes, her diaper, and bottle is waiting and ready. Never had any luck with the standard bottle warmers. It was difficult to know when bottle was finished as most the displays are visual. I ended up timing out how long it would take to warm breastmilk and setting my echo timer. We had every good intention to breast-feed and provide breastmilk, but I had a lot of difficulty and delivery, and was not able to produce as I should have given the stress of the event. However, I did pump for about six months and gave her one bottle of breastmilk daily. Every person and every baby is different. Never forget that, and never feel guilty for using formula or making choices that are best for you and baby! Accessibility wise, I do feel that pumping is challenging. Doable, but challenging. Especially when you are so tired. It just depends on your circumstances and the supports you have around to help with baby while you take care of pumping, cleaning pump parts, storing breastmilk, etc. We quickly went to strictly bottlefeeding rather than breast and bottle. Our baby took to bottles well, and it made things easier on me for sure. When you pump and breast-feed, it is almost like having to feed twice every time you feed. If you plan to breast-feed, I do have some suggestions regarding brands of breast pumps that I found to work better with blindness. ❤️🍼👩🏼🍼
At your party I suggest having each guest describe to you what they brought you and what it is and how it can work for you. Audio books or subscription/ audiobook from audible.
Essential: Zip up sleepers instead of snap up sleepers. Essential: baby play mat. You will place the baby on the floor for her to practice rolling over and sitting. A play mat is tactile. You will know where she is. You will place the baby on the mat and you will keep track of where she is.
Totally agree! Awesome tips! The play Matt is a great way to entertain and keep track of where baby is, and you can always feel the edges with your feet.
100% agree on the zip up sleepers! And now, they make two way zip sleepers, so you don’t have to expose their upper body during changing. It just zips up from the feet for the diaper change. So, so nice! Highly recommend as well!
You are a boat at the stage where I first started feeling movement from the baby. Caleb actually stuck his foot out far enough for me to kind of see the outline of his little foot sticking out under my skin. When I showed my husband he said yuck how can you stand it. I told him like I have a choice. Haha 😆
Hi Cayla, first of all, many congratulations…! As a legally blind man I was lucky to have experienced the first years of both my son and daughter. For me that is handling babies with only light and dark but one is amazed what just the touch can tell…! I could tell you many stories of how I did the all day routines and what kind of aids I used and what kind of inventions I created myself with just logical thinking… The present-opening got me thinking… Here, in the Netherlands, there is this aid for the blind called penfriend. A label-reader that speaks out an recorded message when the penfriend touches the little label… What if… if your guests would put a label on their present and use the penfriend to record their own baby-shower-present… then, at the day of the baby-shower, you get the penfriend labelreader everybody was using all along, and with every present you get, you hold the penfriend on the label and you hear their wishes and what it is they are giving…?? To think about this, smile, this is also great for Christmas and birthdays…! And so, there are always new ways to create and discover…! Take care and best wishes for the both of you now and three of you later…! Fred
Cayla, have you ever heard of a 3D ultrasound. Just a thought. I don’t know if your insurance would cover it but I have heard of blind women having it done.
You look pretty congratulations I know it was hard for you from watching the video. Hope for a happy and healthy l baby hearty pregnancy hope rest of pregnancy is good for you
Hi Cayla!! Congratulations I am so happy for you! I am an 18-year-old visually impaired girl, so I don’t have any parenting experience but I have an idea for maybe the gift opening at your baby shower if it’s possible for your family to make braille labels and put them on the gift and then you can read them yourself and have your period reaction. That might be a good idea for Christmas my sister put A braille label on her gift for me and I really appreciated it and I thought it was really cool. I’m not sure if your family would have access to making labels but it’s just an idea. 🩷🩷
Congrats on the baby! As a VI person, I was thinking as a gift opening game, maybe everyone in attendance can be blindfolded. Then you open each gift and describe it. Once you describe the gift, others can shout out what they think it is. Then you can choose someone you agree with if that's what you think the gift is. Attendees are not allowed to guess their own gift they brought.
Thank you! That’s a fun idea
I wasn’t able to read to my kids either - that was dad’s job. But I was the one who sang to them. 😊
Good point. I am definitely the singer out of the two of us
Congratulations Cayla! I’m on the other side of the blind spectrum with some usable vision. I am a mom of a 3 year old boy. I can’t read but I am learning braille for this. I have to have people cut his nails and I don’t see if his face is dirty. On the plus side he is super independent and helps me a lot.
The other thing you also could connect with is your babies heartbeat recording the ultrasound and I am also blind. Congratulations.
Hi Caylal ❤❤
Congratulations 😊
I'm not totally blind completely yet. But I have raised three boys on my own. I have always been legally blind. My vision now is significantly worse. My boys are currently 30, 26 and going on 28.
Congratulations I am so excited to watch the series. I am also totally blind and still trying to decide if motherhood is something I’m interested in.
Thank you! I hope the series will be helpful to you
Oh my goodness Cayla, congratulations!!! As a fellow blind woman myself, I’m looking forward to seeing how you handle motherhood without sight, as I too would love to be a mother one day, so it would be such a great source of inspiration for me to be able to know what to expect. Sending you and your family so much love and positive energy 🤍
Thank you so much!! I hope the future content is helpful to you
Cayla I am so happy for you and your husband. I pray you have a healthy pregnancy and baby.
Thank you so much!
If you have double pictures of the baby’s ultrasound, have him use puffy paint to outline the babies face after it dries you can feel it
We’ll have to try that, thanks!
Congratulations Kayla, I’m so happy for you and your family and I can’t wait to virtually meet your awesome little girl.
Thank you so much!
I am so happy for you dearest, so so excited, wishing your growing family the best❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Thank you so much!
Congratulations Cayla i'm super Happy for you! Cheers to a growing family!🥂🥂
Thank you so much!
At the baby shower in lieu of cards you could ask guests to bring a small Disney Plushy from your registry (this way they don’t all bring the same one.) Or ask them to bring a small plushy of their favorite Disney Character. You would be able to feel the characters and know which one they are because of your love of Disney. Your daughter could hold/play with the plushy as she grows. It could be a way to share your love of Disney with her.
That’s a cute idea. I definitely plan on sharing my love of Disney with her
I would love to have a very long conversation with you, Cayla. I would like to tell you the story about how the personnel at the hospital after I gave birth the first time were thinking that I was not going to be able to take care of my baby. And I still had a good amount of vision at the time. One of the nurses aides came into give me a chance to spend time with my baby and told me they implicitly told her not to leave him alone with me.
Oh my gosh that’s terrible! I’m so sorry that happened to you
That's rough. Hopefully things in the parent hood perspective have gotten better for you and hope to to "see" a colab with you and Cayla.
Congratulations!! I look forward to the mom vlogs
Thank you so much!
Congratulations Cayla! I am so happy for you. What about calling your journey a sightless mommy series? God bless you.
Thank you so much!
Totally blind dad here. Happy to answer questions you may have.
Thanks! I’m sure I’ll have a lot. Any input on items that would be particularly helpful to put on a registry for a blind parent?
Congratulations! We have more or less the same due date, and I’m a first-time parent, too! My partner and I lost our first pregnancy very early on during the spring/summer of last year. After 6 or so weeks of recovery after my D&C, we kept trying to conceive, and spent months waiting for something to “click” again. I did not have issues with infertility, but I most definitely think that saying it was traumatic for you is in no way an overstatement of how painful the experience can be. You and I have now made it through to the other side, and I can’t wait to meet our beautiful babies in due course.
That’s so awesome! I’m sorry for your loss but glad you’re expecting your rainbow baby now
I'm a legally blind mother of three. Two are mine one was adopted and I was a single mother too! Your child will be the most independent and lovable person in the universe! Go for it! was told if I was crazy for having children! But I took care them better than a visual Mom! Yes you are empowered. We are Love!. Don't give up your dreams and hopes!
That’s awesome! Good for you!
I am also legally blind. And I have a son. He's 16 now. You are right, blind. People manage their kids better than visual Not embarrassed people.
First of all, congratulations Cayla. I am also blind, but not a mother yet. One thing that I just remembered though is that you can administer medicine with a syringe rather than a spoon.
Thank you! And thanks for the tip
Congratulations I’m so happy for you.
Thank you so much!
I'm so excited for the future blind mom series. I unfortunately can't really give any suggestions regarding accessible baby things but I do have a general suggestion. You could probably get some great tips from taking VRT sessions. Pretty sure parenthood is something they can cover. So you'd learn how to take care of your kid safely and they'd also suggest accessible items as well.
Regarding gift opening, you could either skip that all together or maybe just have the guests describe their gifts to you? I saw some better suggestions in the comments but I too find gift opening pretty boring. And regarding cards I'd just write in the invitation something like: Hey guys just a reminder I'm blind.... please no greeting cards it's such a waste of paper and money. In all honesty I think most people throw out cards anyway lol so they might pretty much always be a waste.
You're gonna do great Cayla. Just because we as vip/blind people can't see, doesnt mean we cant take care of ourselves let alone others. Congratulations you're going to be a great mom. Also thank you for sharing and also saying what your shirr says, because I didn't even know there was writing on it when watching your video.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations! I am so happy for you Carla. I had been following your channel for quite a while, always amazed by your courage and determination to live a normal life.
Thank you so much!
Congratulations! How exciting! 20 weeks! Halfway! Woot woot!!! Also when I felt those butterfly kicks for the first time! So incredibly special! ✨ I am totally blind and my little girl just turned 15 months. I am also a first time mom. I am 35 and a Christian mental health counselor. Although, I have not been working since baby girl came along. Actually going to be going back to work next month which will be hard on this momma! I have a cited husband, but I am home with baby girl all day while hubby is at work. Having this little one has been the greatest blessing in my life! And this is coming from a girl who really struggled to take the step to have a baby in the first place. With everything I have been through in my life, losing my sight suddenly as well as master school, and all that, bringing this baby into the world was the hardest thing I have ever done by a long margin. Lol! But I had a very tough pregnancy and delivery… Praying that your pregnancy goes so well and that you have a blessed and smooth delivery! And even with all of the difficulty, I would do it over again! There is nothing like having that little one in your life. It is truly a miracle! Love your channel and love the idea you have to share your experiences as a blind bomb! Is also some thing I’ve kicked around doing, but I will be so happy to share with you! Not sure how long comments can be on here, so I will continue with another comment. So excited for you! You are going to be such an incredible mom! Love and hugs on your blind momma journey! 23:45
Thank you so much!! Sounds like we are in pretty similar situations, you’re just a bit ahead of me. I’m definitely appreciating the advice. Good luck on going back to work!
@@CaylawithaC for sure! I am so glad! It seems that there are not many blind women who take the step into parenthood. At least, when I got pregnant, I was only able to find a couple of older women whose kids were now our age. It is so nice to connect with someone my age that is going through a similar experience! Thinking of you, and would love to talk more! Do you have an email I could send to?
@@BlindGirlCan The best way to get in touch with me is to send me a message on Twitter @its_caylawithac
Can I do that if I don’t have Twitter?
Congratulations! I am so happy on this news that you are pregnant. God bless you with a sweet and healthy baby. I am too a patient of RP and am suffering from serious low vision problem. I am from Chitral, Pakistan..
Thank you so much!
I feel like we are on such similar trajectories in life. I am pregnant too. I am almost 36 weeks today. Congrats love!
Congratulations!! My baby will be 4 months this week. I'm visually impaired as part of my cp. My family had concerns and thought I wouldn't have kids. I always wanted to have kids. The pelvic checks are the hardest for me physically.
That’s so awesome! Congratulations! Wishing you the best for the remainder of your pregnancy, birth, and beginning to motherhood
For our baby shower, we requested braille books instead of greeting cards. Individuals were able to write personal messages in the books, which was awesome! We thought it would be special for baby girl to read herself when she grows up… All of the love, and well wishes for her and her life. it also got us a really good start on a collection of books for baby girl. There are a couple of really great places you can order braille books online, and they are not any more expensive than buying them in print at target or whatever. My family got into it, and purchased lots of touchy-feely books and sound books as well. It is truly incredible What is available these days! 🙌🥰❤️ 23:45
Its been a journey Congratulations!!
It sure has, thank you!
so happy for you
Thank you!
Congratulations! Best wishes!
Thank you!!
Hello Kayla congratulations on your pregnancy I think you should call your journey being a first time blind mom😊
Thank you so much!
haven’t watched yet but just wanted to send my biggest congratulations!! been waiting for this happy update for months since your infertility videos, so happy for you and Ethan!! :)
Thank you so much!!
Omg am so happy for you Cayla 🎉❤🎉
Thank you so much!
I had one friend who was totally blind and her advice to help hear the child is to give them pants that crinkle as they go. Sort of like those jogging or workout pants. That is when for they start walking around.
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Congratulation ❤
Thank you!!
Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
🎉🎉🎉 Congrats! Also, I’m looking forward to this new series 🥳
Thank you so much!
I just posted this on my LinkedIn as well as my Facebook page. Both do not have high numbers, but our personally selected people. I understand your concerns I live blind myself and can possibly imagine bringing a child into this house when I can barely handle my invisible hippopotamus :-) I wish you the best you will be in my prayers And God will hold you safely in the palm of his hand. I have total faith in that you’re the best always have been always will be. I’m sure you will be a fantastic mom. Take care of yourself.
Thanks so much Keith!
Congratulations Cayla!!!❤
Thank you so much!
Congratulations!!!! 🎊🎉🎈 ❤
Thank you so much! It’s good to hear from you. I hope you’re doing well
I am now. Had a health issue last month, but it’s behind me now. Hope you, Ethan and baby girl are doing well. ❤
Congratulations, Kayla I am so so happy for you and your husband! I’ve been praying and hoping that this day would come that I would see a video of you spreading the good news!
I like the name of your channel to be maybe the baby girl Chronicles.
No a couple of ideas here I can throw out. I like the idea of turning the opening of gifts at the baby shower as a game. Maybe what you could do is open up the gifts and. Maybe have you try to guess what the gift is and your guest have to say whether it’s hot or cold. Hot meaning you’re very very close to what the gift is. And cold you’re not close.
No, I totally understand about getting greeting cards. Like you I would prefer not to get a greeting card because I can’t read them either. And usually they end up either sitting in my filing cabinet for years on end or eventually they end up in the trash. So I would suggest as an idea is instead of a card, maybe people can donate money to help with Baby expenses, Harriet.
I hope that some of the suggestions will help. Again, Kayla I am so so excited for you and your husband! And I am definitely looking forward following you and your husband on your journey through your babies life!
I also was just thinking, I was wondering if maybe one of the videos that you add to your baby journey videos, is your thoughts and research that you probably did on whether or not you had a concern if you’re newborn be blind or sided. I think that has always been one of my biggest concern is whether or not, my retinitis pigmentosa could be inherited to the baby wired by the baby.
Sending you and your husband lots of love and big hugs
Thank you so much Steven!! And those are some really good ideas. It’s funny that you mentioned the suggestion about whether our baby would inherit my eye condition because I meant to talk about that in this video and completely forgot. I’ll have to address it in another one.
I Am so happy for both of You, congrats!
Thank you so much!!
This is the BEST news! Congrats to both of you, Cayla! ❤ I hope everything will go as planned, motherhood is a biiig journey.
Oh, and this video series would be lovely for me too as I have a blind baby girl. I was already thinking about how I would teach her the basics of taking care of a baby on her own.
I just watched the whole video finally. It’s daytime here, so once I put my baby down for the night, I’ll add my registry here with tips for you as I have recent experience. Do you guys know whether your baby will be sighted or not? Some items turned out to be useless for us because of my baby’s disability, but they are totally valid and useful otherwise.
Thank you so much! And I definitely would appreciate your tips. Our baby should not inherit my eye condition or any other disabilities that we know of
@@CaylawithaC That's great to hear (not that she wouldn't be awesome nonetheless).
BTW I did not have any issues conceiving, but I still had a hard time connecting to my baby even after she was born: she was what we thought colicy (as it turns out she was confused because of her blindness), I had issues with breastfeeding and our families all threw their ideas at me how to be able to 'put her down'. Now I finally have a good and meaningful relationship with her, I needed 6 months for this. All I wanted to say is that it's normal what you are feeling and you are not alone (I'm also a psychologist).
So, to the list... I was taking notes during the day for you, I only have a few items though. Some are generally good for all mums, but I can see why it's especially useful for you.
- Clothes with zippers are much easier to handle, or if you can get your hands on magnetic ones, those are the absolute best! I prefer pants over onsies during the day, it's easier to manage.
- Bibs that are the full upper-body/sleeved type (raincoat material). We are doing baby lead weaning, I can save most clothes of hers from needing to be changed constantly. :D
- The best item for bathing I found is the Anglecare Soft Touch Baby Bath Support, it has a protruding part between the legs so the baby won't slide downwards at all.
- If you want to breastfeed exclusively: tiable nursing pillow (but in this case do not use a pacifier). The none-tiable ones are hard to manage, they slide everywhere all the time, so it's harder to keep them in place.
- Portable changing mat: I think having a changing station is not necessary, it's even more hazardous as time goes by and babies become more mobile (especially if you can't easily track their movement). I'm using the Hauck Change Me, but we are going on early intervention programs 3 times a week too, so it's always in my backpack.
- 3in1 strollers are pretty good with the newborn carrier car seats for the first while, but I'd invest in a good 360° swivel carseat with isofix if you have it in your car (not sure of the best brands over there). You can use isofix with the newborn carrier too.
- We use a JBL Go 3 for music and bedtime stories (there are a lot of great Hungarian bands for children), but I heard there are really good Braille children books out there too. Or you can buy picture/board books which have tactile parts and no words written in them - you get to create the story. :D ie. with only a few words per page:
- What Does Bunny Like (Touch&Feel) by Igloo Books www.amazon.com/What-Does-Bunny-Like-Touch/dp/178810367X
- Little Frog (Touch&Explore) by Katie Saunders (might not be avaible on Amazon, but you can show this to relatives as an example) www.ebay.com/itm/304725123973
- Crinckly pants for when they can crawl :D
@@dorottyakacser-varga3607 thanks so much, this is all really helpful!
Speaking of incredible, I am going to tell you 23:45 the #1 thing that we could have never lived without when becoming parents! Well, we could have, but it would have been miserable. Baby Brezza! Baby Brezza! Baby Brezza! And I will say it one more time… Baby Brezza!!!! 😂 It is a formula machine that mixes a perfectly warmed bottle at the touch of a button. A.k.a.. Pure magic! Lol! When you are so sleep deprived and can barely manage to find the kitchen, let alone a bottle, this thing is a lifesaver! It also works with your smart phone, so you can open up the app to change settings and adjust bottle size if you lose track of what the bottle machine is set to. You can also put a bottle in place to start a bottle with your phone via Wi-Fi while you are changing a diaper or what not. Baby starts crying, momma grabs phone and starts the bottle, momma gets baby and changes, her diaper, and bottle is waiting and ready. Never had any luck with the standard bottle warmers. It was difficult to know when bottle was finished as most the displays are visual. I ended up timing out how long it would take to warm breastmilk and setting my echo timer. We had every good intention to breast-feed and provide breastmilk, but I had a lot of difficulty and delivery, and was not able to produce as I should have given the stress of the event. However, I did pump for about six months and gave her one bottle of breastmilk daily. Every person and every baby is different. Never forget that, and never feel guilty for using formula or making choices that are best for you and baby! Accessibility wise, I do feel that pumping is challenging. Doable, but challenging. Especially when you are so tired. It just depends on your circumstances and the supports you have around to help with baby while you take care of pumping, cleaning pump parts, storing breastmilk, etc. We quickly went to strictly bottlefeeding rather than breast and bottle. Our baby took to bottles well, and it made things easier on me for sure. When you pump and breast-feed, it is almost like having to feed twice every time you feed. If you plan to breast-feed, I do have some suggestions regarding brands of breast pumps that I found to work better with blindness. ❤️🍼👩🏼🍼
Thanks for the tip. I do plan on breast-feeding, but I will definitely keep this in mind if we need to make the switch to formula
Congratulations, Cayla!!! I'm so thrilled for you! I also have a ton of recommendations for you that I may need several comments to get through. LOL.
Thank you! Bring them on! I love to hear all your recommendations
Congratulations Dear
Thank you!
Congratulations!🎊🎉🎊
Thank you!!
@@CaylawithaC you're welcome!
Omg congrats!!!!!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you so much!!
At your party I suggest having each guest describe to you what they brought you and what it is and how it can work for you.
Audio books or subscription/ audiobook from audible.
Good idea, thanks!
congradulations :) greets Mak
Thank you!!
Congrats!!! Love your content!
Thank you so much!!
Essential: Zip up sleepers instead of snap up sleepers.
Essential: baby play mat. You will place the baby on the floor for her to practice rolling over and sitting. A play mat is tactile. You will know where she is. You will place the baby on the mat and you will keep track of where she is.
Great tips, thank you!
Totally agree! Awesome tips! The play Matt is a great way to entertain and keep track of where baby is, and you can always feel the edges with your feet.
100% agree on the zip up sleepers! And now, they make two way zip sleepers, so you don’t have to expose their upper body during changing. It just zips up from the feet for the diaper change. So, so nice! Highly recommend as well!
You are a boat at the stage where I first started feeling movement from the baby. Caleb actually stuck his foot out far enough for me to kind of see the outline of his little foot sticking out under my skin. When I showed my husband he said yuck how can you stand it. I told him like I have a choice. Haha 😆
Lol yeah I’m not going to lie I am a little bit nervous for when those movements get pretty pronounced
Congratulations
Thank you!
Hi Cayla, first of all, many congratulations…! As a legally blind man I was lucky to have experienced the first years of both my son and daughter. For me that is handling babies with only light and dark but one is amazed what just the touch can tell…! I could tell you many stories of how I did the all day routines and what kind of aids I used and what kind of inventions I created myself with just logical thinking…
The present-opening got me thinking… Here, in the Netherlands, there is this aid for the blind called penfriend. A label-reader that speaks out an recorded message when the penfriend touches the little label… What if… if your guests would put a label on their present and use the penfriend to record their own baby-shower-present… then, at the day of the baby-shower, you get the penfriend labelreader everybody was using all along, and with every present you get, you hold the penfriend on the label and you hear their wishes and what it is they are giving…??
To think about this, smile, this is also great for Christmas and birthdays…!
And so, there are always new ways to create and discover…!
Take care and best wishes for the both of you now and three of you later…!
Fred
Thank you so much! That’s a great idea!
Cayla, have you ever heard of a 3D ultrasound. Just a thought. I don’t know if your insurance would cover it but I have heard of blind women having it done.
I’ll definitely look into that, thanks!
congratulations.
Thank you!
@@CaylawithaC you're welcome
I've heard of baby books with braille overlays on printed pages but have no idea where to get them
They have a lot on the seedlings website. I’ve definitely got some on my registry
You look pretty congratulations I know it was hard for you from watching the video. Hope for a happy and healthy l baby hearty pregnancy hope rest of pregnancy is good for you
Thank you so much!
@@CaylawithaC you are one of my favorites people on here I have rp have some useful visions left
Congratulations 2:30
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I am a man that is blind, so I wondered what differences there are between a blind and sided woman going through pregnancy
Oh yay I’m so excited for you Carlye. That’s amazing news. Sorry spell to check kind of screwed your name out. Sorry sorry sorry
Thank you so much!
Hi Cayla!! Congratulations I am so happy for you! I am an 18-year-old visually impaired girl, so I don’t have any parenting experience but I have an idea for maybe the gift opening at your baby shower if it’s possible for your family to make braille labels and put them on the gift and then you can read them yourself and have your period reaction. That might be a good idea for Christmas my sister put A braille label on her gift for me and I really appreciated it and I thought it was really cool. I’m not sure if your family would have access to making labels but it’s just an idea. 🩷🩷
Hi! That is a really good idea. I’m not sure if they would have access to make a braille label but I like that idea a lot
Congratulations!
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Congratulations!!!
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