[guatdad]

Hi Desilu,

As long as he's healthy, he will be fine. There are many options such as doing the Cochlear Implants, wearing hearing aids, going through speech therapy, learning sign language, and many more... First he will need to be evaluated when he comes home to find out the severity of his hearing loss before going the next step.

My wife and myself are profoundly deaf. At the beginning of the adoption process, we were pursing for a healthy, deaf infant. We were referred a deaf baby boy from Guatemala who we gladly accepted but then later to find out that his b.m. changed her mind and kept him. Of course our hearts were broken. After several months of searching for other special need or deaf baby, the agency instead offered us a baby boy with normal hearing who we also gladly accepted. Nelson came home to us at 5.5 mos old and is a very loving, wonderful boy Today at 2.5 yrs old!

To make this story more interesting, exactly three months after Nelson's homecoming, my wife, Susan, found out that she was pregnant by some miracle! When our second son, Cody, was born, we found out that he is profoundly deaf! He's a beautiful baby boy and very healthy!

If you have any further questions about communication, education, technology for the deaf, or anything, please feel free to PM me anytime. We are very happy to read that you are still going ahead for that beautiful baby boy! Our parents went through just like you are going through right now, with no experience of the deafness. Don't be too scared. We turned out to be normal adults with college degrees and successful careers.

Best of Luck,
Mark