So i was in hospital for nearly three months preceding the birth and despite asking my OT over and over to find me help/gadgets to help with looking after the baby her best effort was a gadget to open jars with. I felt let down and abandoned by the one person who's entire job was to help me! My hubby, biggerfeet, is an IT consultant who gets a twitch if he can't check his email every 5 minutes so within a week of being in hospital he turned up with a laptop so that we could chat while he was at work and I could keep in touch with the rest of the world. I immediately started to search for my own solutions -I found that there was a lot of information about disabled parenting online but mostly focused on wheelchair users (of which I currently am one) but not people with upper limb problems so anyway I decided I would document the gadgets that I found/bought so others could get an idea for themselves so people in a similar position to me could better judge if they would be suitable for them. The first thing to mention is my loss is on the left hand side and I am right-handed so quite dexterous with my remaining hand so people with reduced mobility in both hands may struggle with some things that I find easy - I will try to bear this in mind. Also I am quite flexible being 33 and so can bend etc easily - getting dressed is fairly easy for me ( particularly now the bump is gone!) again I will try to take reduced flexibility into account.
Sunday, 8 March 2009
a Happy event!
On the 23rd of Feb 2009 I gave birth or in the words of Shakespeare had a child from my womb "untimely ripped" to a 6 pound 2 ounce beautiful baby boy I shall hence forth call bigfoot ( he has his Fathers abnormally large leg endings). This in itself is not unusual - but what sets us apart is that at new years while 7 months pregnant I had a stroke. Luckily we both survived Bigfoot unscathed but he did have to be rudely introduced to the world by cesarean when I had planned a peaceful hypnobirth and I was largely unscathed except from loosing use of my left arm ( we aren't yet sure how permanent the loss is- I am keeping the right hand fingers crossed).
So i was in hospital for nearly three months preceding the birth and despite asking my OT over and over to find me help/gadgets to help with looking after the baby her best effort was a gadget to open jars with. I felt let down and abandoned by the one person who's entire job was to help me! My hubby, biggerfeet, is an IT consultant who gets a twitch if he can't check his email every 5 minutes so within a week of being in hospital he turned up with a laptop so that we could chat while he was at work and I could keep in touch with the rest of the world. I immediately started to search for my own solutions -I found that there was a lot of information about disabled parenting online but mostly focused on wheelchair users (of which I currently am one) but not people with upper limb problems so anyway I decided I would document the gadgets that I found/bought so others could get an idea for themselves so people in a similar position to me could better judge if they would be suitable for them. The first thing to mention is my loss is on the left hand side and I am right-handed so quite dexterous with my remaining hand so people with reduced mobility in both hands may struggle with some things that I find easy - I will try to bear this in mind. Also I am quite flexible being 33 and so can bend etc easily - getting dressed is fairly easy for me ( particularly now the bump is gone!) again I will try to take reduced flexibility into account.
So i was in hospital for nearly three months preceding the birth and despite asking my OT over and over to find me help/gadgets to help with looking after the baby her best effort was a gadget to open jars with. I felt let down and abandoned by the one person who's entire job was to help me! My hubby, biggerfeet, is an IT consultant who gets a twitch if he can't check his email every 5 minutes so within a week of being in hospital he turned up with a laptop so that we could chat while he was at work and I could keep in touch with the rest of the world. I immediately started to search for my own solutions -I found that there was a lot of information about disabled parenting online but mostly focused on wheelchair users (of which I currently am one) but not people with upper limb problems so anyway I decided I would document the gadgets that I found/bought so others could get an idea for themselves so people in a similar position to me could better judge if they would be suitable for them. The first thing to mention is my loss is on the left hand side and I am right-handed so quite dexterous with my remaining hand so people with reduced mobility in both hands may struggle with some things that I find easy - I will try to bear this in mind. Also I am quite flexible being 33 and so can bend etc easily - getting dressed is fairly easy for me ( particularly now the bump is gone!) again I will try to take reduced flexibility into account.
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