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I made a video for my son when he was still alive. It represents the core of this thread. It's about loving your child no matter what. I challenge you to check it out and tell me it doesn't strike a nerve. YouTube - ‪"For you I will" ASL song - dedicated to my son - CODA‬‏

A hobby of mine is to sign songs that I like and put them on youtube. I'm hearing but I'm a coda and my signing style is pidgin. Some people criticize me for labeling my videos "ASL" when they are really pidgin but I don't care. Most people don't know what "pidgin" is so they don't search for it...

I had my sonogram at 20 weeks which is supposed to reveal any problems if there are any. Nothing showed up wrong. Everything looked great and my baby looked great. And if you think children don't teach us lessons then you clearly don't have any or you don't get what it is to be a parent...

Thanks for the welcomes. I appreciate it.

You think I CHOSE to have my son be born only so he could die 3 years later????? Highly offensive. I didn't know there was anything wrong with my son until the day before he was born and he was born 7 weeks early. I was 24 years old and they did offer me prenatal testing but I had NO reason...

Let me be clear: I'm not bitter. I was offended by the comment by Aleser that I am an outsider to deafness. If I am an outsider than ALL the hearing kids of the people on this forum are too. Coda's may not be deaf themselves but they experience the deaf world very intimately especially when...

All babies are not created the same, therefore, certain variables can change how you decide what to feed your baby, clothe it, educate, etc. If your baby has allergies to gluten or peanuts you would have to pick and choose what you feed it. If your baby is born a dwarf you have to have...

Let me be clear since you are obviously confused by my prior comments: my position is that choosing which embryo to create is wrong. Period. Deaf picking Deaf. Hearing picking hearing. Whatever. I am absolutely qualified to state my opinion BECAUSE i am a parent who has had a child born with...

Shel- I agree. The scientists are wrong and the people who participate in it are wrong.

I don't just "know" deaf people, I was raised by them. I had to interpret for my mom EVERYWHERE we went for as long as I can remember. Earliest memory of it goes back to when I was 6. Why did I have to do that? Because it was easier for my mom to have me help her than to constantly have to ask...

I think it's a good question. Honestly, my opinion is men want to have sex with women with "perfect" bodies BUT they don't want to marry them. Men really want women who are attractive but not perfect and have "real" personalities so that they can settle down and have families with them. Trust...

That's true but don't parents want their children to have easier lives than they had? Not that being hearing is better but it's definitely easier. Last year my mom and I went on a deaf cruise and I tried being deaf for a week. I started at the airport and pretended to be deaf. Trying to write...

So, if given the choice, Deaf parents would choose a deaf embryo over a hearing one? Why? That stings. If my mom did that then I wouldn't exist. How about just love your baby no matter what you get? I always said even though I am hearing if I had a deaf baby it would be no difference. The fact...

I'm somewhat new here...i was here before a few years ago and now I figured I'd come back. My mom went to frederick school for the deaf in Maryland and so did my father. My mom's name from school was Theresa Matassa and my father was Tom D'Antoni if anyone knows them. My father passed away 2...