Comments on: Hearing Loss Doesn’t Have to Add to Holiday Stress http://www.beckysbestbites.com/hearing-loss-holiday-stress/ A food and lifestyle blog with family-friendly recipes and resources. Sat, 22 Jul 2017 07:28:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8 By: Becky http://www.beckysbestbites.com/hearing-loss-holiday-stress/#comment-5743 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:49:40 +0000 http://www.beckysbestbites.com/?p=5279#comment-5743 I am so glad, Sinea! Thank you for the feedback 🙂

]]> By: Sinea Pies http://www.beckysbestbites.com/hearing-loss-holiday-stress/#comment-5742 Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:07:51 +0000 http://www.beckysbestbites.com/?p=5279#comment-5742 I took the online test – it was so much fun! I even took the one for someone else and found it to be very helpful. Thanks!

]]> By: uprunforlife http://www.beckysbestbites.com/hearing-loss-holiday-stress/#comment-5498 Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:53:23 +0000 http://www.beckysbestbites.com/?p=5279#comment-5498 My daughter was born with a hearing loss, thankfully, she was tested in the hospital I delivered at because it wasn’t mandatory then. Don’t stress over getting her newborn screening right away. They typically do them in the first 48 hours before you are able to leave the hospital. You don’t want to have it done before her ears are naturally allowed to get rid of the excess amniotic fluid. When my daughter failed her test, they did a repeat test in two weeks to confirm a hearing loss or if she had fluid still in her ear from birth. Then she had to have ABR testing which is more reliable than the test that they do with the newborn screening. In 1996/97, when she was little they didn’t do cochlear implants until they were two. Now they do them at an earlier age so that don’t lose out on valuable communication skills that they get the first three years of life. She is now in college and has done very well in my eyes.

They never did determine why my daughter lost her hearing. It was any genetic markers for it. I went on to have two other kids with normal hearing.

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