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Current hearing aids: Oticon Digifocus II She LOVES her hearing aids and wants her new ones to be EXACTLY like these! I LOVE these hearing aids because they are 12 years old! They have been repaired a few times and still are hanging in there! Just repaired one recently and finally am...

Rh-Incompatibility--Hyperbilirubinemia(Jaundice) My blood type is A negative and my 2 kids are A positive--developed antibodies to Rh factor with firstborn and those antibodies attacked my daughter all through high-risk pregnancy. Blood transfusions before and after birth saved her life, but...

Thank you so much for all of this information! I will begin looking into each one right now! And thanks to everyone for their advice! I hope I pick the right one for her! :)

Christmas shopping online today for my daughter who is 17 years old and is deaf. So hard to decide what kind of phone to get her!! Here are some stats on what she does now: At the end of contract with T-Mobile Sidekick '08-- she had great unlimited text and internet plan UNTIL they...

Yes--Sorenson VP-200. YAY Sorenson!!!!!

About the advocating--I have plans to talk to people I know in the "oral camp" regarding this. For years, we were told that "mainstream is usually the best thing for oral deaf kids"--"once they can hear and speak, they should fit in with everyone else"--yadda yadda yadda. My daughter CAN hear...

My daughter just started high school at a deaf school--she loves it and is very happy! There are VPs in the dorms--most of the students use them to communicate with their parents during the week. We just got one installed in our home on Friday and it is amazing!! My daughter CAN use a regular...

My daughter has completed her first two weeks of high school and LOVES it!! When we went to freshmen orientation, I KNEW we had made the right decision--the whole concept of going to high school with other deaf students, having the opportunities available that are not in most big public...

Quick Update In February, my daughter and I went to FSDB for her intake evaluations. She was accepted and plans were made for her to attend FSDB for the last quarter of 8th grade. I had a job interview in Orlando in March, but things did not work out. We made the decision for the two of us...

Welcome to Holland! :) There is a poem/essay named "Welcome to Holland" that I recommend you read--I am sure you can google it--have tissue ready!! I am also a hearing mother of a deaf child--been there, done that. I SOOO know what you are going through! My daughter was diagnosed with a...

My daughter has a sloping loss--begins in moderate with low tones, mostly in severe for most tones, and profound for the very high tones. I guess one thing I would say about the digitals--they SEEM to help her hear the high tones better than the analogs. Still, I'm not sure if she is really...

I wish! Nope--for the most part, most health insurance companies won't cover hearing aids. Now, when she was one year old and we weren't making much of an annual salary, she did get her first pair of analog hearing aids for free: it was through the state we lived in back then. Then we moved...

Thanks for your input! Yeah--I think the difference for my daughter seems to be that she likes the way the digital aids sound and doesn't like the way the analog aids sound--now that she only has one working digital aid, she seems to feel that she has no choice but to wear one. She tried the...

Ah--so one digital and one analog isn't so unsual after all! And you prefer the analog? Mostly because of the digital and the "battery is low" beeping? Hmm...I'm not sure why my daughter seems to think the digital sounds so much better to her than the analog--to her there seems to be quite a...

While my daughter has a bilateral loss, right now she is only aiding one ear(one good digital aid, one broken digital aid, two rejected analog aids). In other words, she is currently living her life as if she had single-sided deafness--she hears pretty well with the digital aid in one ear and...