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When my daughter was born she was crying very loudly and when the nurses put her on the heat lamp table I said her name and she immediately became quiet, as my voice evidently was soothing to her. When Drew was born he was not crying as much, but when the nurses put him on the heat lamp table...

My personal experience is that the only resources made available to me initally stressed a deaf school/asl program. All of the information we have gathered on cochlear implants is from our seeking it out - in other words, we were not approached by anyone at all. In the hospital, the newborn...

Flip, thanks for the compliment. I am wondering if the fact that CI's have improved so much in the last 20 years is why all the additional therapy and work is now considered necessary. I think that if they were much less effective 20 years ago, there was not much practice needed to get the...

I appreciate your opinion, it's just that "what side you are on" has nothing to do with the topic of this thread.

If that's the choice for the child that a parent wants to make, then that's fine with me - but the parent is the one deciding how that child will cope with their deafness, at least until they are old enough to take their own path. At that point, the results of the parent's choice will be...

Sounds like your "point" is that you don't think children should be implanted.

I'm actually not trying to justify anything. I'm illustrating that in both results, a choice is made for the child based upon how a parent feels when balancing all the thoughts, feelings and information they have. That's the point. I don't want to get off the topic here, but there are...

Sounds like you're missing the point of my post - that either way a choice is made for the child.

I don't understand the characterization of "letting the child decide" (whether to get an implant). I see this many places as the sole argument against giving infants or young children a cochlear implant, with the only reason given being that it is simply bad because parents shouldn't be making...

Or a minority baby being adopted by a white family. The color of that baby's skin doesn't mean that he or she will automatically fit in 100% with black culture.

This was all clear to me in your original post, for what it's worth.