Parenting babies and children with special needs support/chat thread?

[DaintreeDream]

I was wondering if any one would be interested in joining in on a 'Parenting babies and children with special needs support/chat thread'?

There seems to be a lot of parents on BB that have children with special or additional needs, these needs may however be individual to that family (meaning my DD is hearing impaired and I do not know of any other hearing impaired toddlers on BB) so I thought it would be nice to have a place to come and chat with other parents who understand what it is like to parent a child with additional needs.

This could also be a place to come to find support for any upcoming appointments or surgery your child my be attending in the near future as this can often be a stressful time with alot of unknowns and fears.

When I fell pregnant with my second baby I knew there was a possibility that she could carry the same condition as my DD1 although the woman of BB are wonderful and offered alot of support during this time I would have loved to have chatted with parents who truely understood my fears as it is something they have or will one day be facing themselves.

I think support for parents of NICU/SCN babies is important, my girls were both in NICU/SCN however they were not prem so I feel that I do not fit in when chatting in a NICU based thread as their 'problems' were/are sometimes different to those of prems.

Also, chatting about the day to day parenting and just our family life in general.

I have only touched on a few things, I would love to hear what others think .