Hi super mom, amazing ideas and observations, you are the best ❤❤❤❤

Peope really ask blind people those questions? That is noone elses business, but i see you need content.

Congradulations Cayla by the way my name is Mike and I too are visually impared

This was very informative. Thank you for demonstrating this. I've only ever changed a pee diaper before and have always been nervous to change a poopy diaper because wipes are so slippery and it's hard to tell. Good to know that it's OK to use toilet paper first

I understand you have a baby what is his name if I can ask.

Wow haven't heard you in a wail didn't know you ware a new mom congrats!

Hi Cayĺa how are you happy new year

Changing diapers gave me so much anxiety at first after I had the baby. I’ve never changed the diaper before and I practiced on a doll before the baby came… It wasn’t the same. The diaper didn’t fit right. It was just not great practice obviously. And I had a C-section so there was about a week or two where my husband or my mom were doing all of the diaper changes because I couldn’t really bend. I had changed one diaper in the hospital, but that was with the help of a midwife and a nurse lol. And then for maybe a month after I was so freaking terrified about diaper changing. it literally sent my anxiety spiraling! There was trying to figure out nursing, and then that on top of it. And then the first time I did change a diaper I didn’t have it fully closed, well I swore I did, but I don’t think the one tab was pressed down all the way, so it popped up. and baby boy pooped everywhere. No, obviously I’m like… Girl, what were you so scared of? But those post partum hormones are real! I do change my guy on the floor because I was just terrified that I would accidentally take my hand away for a second or something and he would fall. We just put the changing pad right down there. But wait… Changing gets even more crazy when they start to alligator role… And then when they start to crawl away from you! I literally have to chase my baby down all the time now. He sees that diaper and takes off. He needs distraction with toys. That’s a cool idea about the toilet paper, I never would have thought of that. It seems like you’re doing great mama! I’ve been thinking of making some TikTok‘s about my tips for blind parenting. But honestly, I’m so freaking exhausted. My 11 month old still doesn’t sleep very well. Congrats on killing the game, girl! You are rocking this motherhood thing.

Sounds like you and your husband are doing a good job of thinking through everything. Possible video idea: Do you work from home? If so, do you have a nanny or watch your baby during the day and work in evening when your husband is home? Or, working outside the home, how did you pick a daycare that you felt comfortable with?

I'm a 'newbie' to white canes, having only begun to use one within the past month or so. I was watching your video and you talked about catching your hand in the section bit. Talk about timing. I nearly cut off my pinky finger with mine earlier today. I neverctealised that something that looks so innocent can be like an alligator in disguise! I'm going to subscribe as your videos are brilliant for information and advice. I had a guy who asked me if I was blind. I have partial vision. I just asked him how his eyesight was and told him that I had the 'economy version' as my subscription ran out. Humour seems to the answer to weird questions etc. (By the way, I'm 67 yrs of age so I've worn life a bit!) The other thing I did to break the awkwardness with friends etc was I told them all they had all become astonishingly gorgeous overnight! I had a hilarious moment at Christmas. My first Christmas with low vision. I picked up a few gift cards for people as crowds make me nervous. Gave one to a friend .... congratulating the new baby!! He and his wife are also in their 60s, so we all thought it was hilarious! Thanks for the videos and the awareness. They are uplifting and really helpful.

Now take this to the next level and get some glasses with no prescription as a fashion statement

My blessings goes out to you

Great video ❤

I never knew there was ready to feed formula. Sounds super convenient. And the bottle making machine sounds so awesome!

Giiirl yes, the mental health struggle was so real. My guy didn’t latch well for about the first 3 to 4 weeks. He’d just scream at the boob and I felt awful. And my husband did help me latch a lot in the beginning. Also why is the paternity and maternity leave system so trash in this country? I was lucky that my husband was able to take three months off. In our state, we have paid family leave that employees can pay into and then receive 70% of their pay for up to three months. I don’t qualify for it because I am a federal employee, but luckily the federal government passed a law around 2019 giving us 3 months fully paid maternity and paternity leave. I have to say, I love the boppy. Only problem is I always have to have one with me now lol. Also for some reason I could never get the nipple shield to stay on by myself.

They have a baby Brezza version that works with the app. That’s the version we bought. We mostly give the baby breastmilk now, but in the beginning after I ended up having a C-section it took a minute for the milk to come in and we had to supplement. And then… You know, breast-feeding is hard lol. So I wasn’t sure in the beginning, what we were going to do. Anyway, I bought the version that works with the app, and you can set all of the settings right from there. Eliminates having to press a zillion buttons, but of course Smart phones apps aren’t always reliable. Also, we used a ton of ready to feed formula in the beginning too. We got lots of it from the hospital. But it’s so pricey.

Your videos always make me happy, you are a phenomenal mom❤❤❤

I did both.

I appreciate when sighted people want to help someone with a visual impairment have an experience, but please take a hands-off approach. Only help us if we accept an offer or if we ask for it. Your intentions are often very much appreciated, but while trying to help, you often take control of a situation, and you can actually interfere with an experience that way. You can make it worse for us. I like to travel by myself. I'll take buses or trains. I'll stay in airbnb's. I go to concerts, stand up comedy shows, and I want to go to some other things too. It would be nice to go on some paranormal investigations. I'm sure there are some very well-intentioned sided people who would love to follow me on these adventures and help me to have a good time, but they care about me, so they're going to control the environment. I don't want that. I want to go on these adventures by myself. Instead of having a person with me who cares about me and wants to help, I would rather ask staff members at the particular attraction I'm visiting to help me. if I do bring a sided person with me, I'm going to choose someone who, as mentioned earlier, takes a hands-off approach. It'll be someone who listens to me and only helps when I ask for it and only gives the help I asked for. Another way that well-intentioned cited people can mess up an experience for blind people is to imply that we can only go to orchestrated events that are dedicated specifically to us. I have read news articles about special events for blind people. I've read about dancing and cooking classes for blind people. I read recently about a section of beach that was opened up specifically for blind and disabled people Some of these things can be very helpful, but I don't want to be told that I have to go to a special part of the beach because I'm blind. I don't want society being led to believe, or for myself to be told, that I can't be on the beach with everyone else if I want to go to a beach, I want to go to the same Beach the side of people are going to. If I go to a bar, I want to sit with all of the other bar patrons. I don't want to be sat back in the corner far away from everyone where I can drink alone. I can do that much more cheaply at home. I guess the best way to manage this problem is to go ahead and offer specialized activities, but don't exclude us from the ones that aren't targeted towards blind, visually impaired, or disabled people. Many people don't need to hear that. I'm sure it's common sense for many. I just feel that it needs to be mentioned in case there's confusion for anyone. I understand that most cited people really are just trying to help, and many of you want us to have a good experience, so if you find yourself trampling our good time, it's 99.99% of the time and honest mistake. The best way to avoid these mistakes is communication. Before you do anything, have a conversation. Also, the blind person has control of themselves and what they do. You may be well-intentioned, but the moment you take control of a blind person or our situation without our consent, you have stopped helping and started causing problems.

Pay close attention to the situations where each presenter mentions how they may have missed out on the intention of the activity, but the experience was still enjoyable. Casey mentioning how she likes to go to the zoo is a perfect example. She mentioned the atmosphere. Atmosphere is very important to people who can't see whether we are totally blind or suffer some vision loss. The atmosphere and social experience does a lot for me personally. I love to travel, but I don't have to go to the fancy places that everybody wants to go to. Sightseeing does nothing for me because I have no sight. Tommy Edison mentioned this also. What he likes is talking to the local people and hearing their stories. I'm exactly the same way. I could go to a tourist area and talk to the staff at the attractions. I can find out what bars they go to after hours and go talk to them. I would love that. On top of that, I guess this goes along with atmosphere, but we hear other people's conversations and glean information about what's going on that way. in a way, it's holistic. You take into consideration the entire experience. The things you hear, the conversations you have, the interactions you have, everything that happens is part of the experience and thus part of the adventure.

6:18 This part about not being able to read signs is so relatable. I am not legally blind, or totally blind, but my vision is not good; even with glasses. Strangers act like I am *crazy* when I can't read text.

Hi, my name is Doug. I am another blind KZbinr here as well. Nice to see you are independently making videos yourself. That is awesome. Here is my process. Are you an online video converter to convert my audio into videos? Very simple easy website to use you choose your file you choose the background image and you click convert. I just recently bought a tripod so I’m going to attempt to film very very soon if you all have questions for me, you can reach out to me and I will answer any questions that you guys have. Thanks God bless, and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the year and great holidays.

Hi, what’s up Kayla? I also have a question. I do my videos on my phone and I import them to dropbox. How can I edit? I am on Windows. Just wanted to get your feedback in your input just was wondering thanks

Im blind in one eye.when i had cataracts in my other eye i used your voice to know who you were.

More such videos please❤️

It's also rough when text on screen is so damn tiny that even standing with my face pressed to the screen, I still can't see it

I've had a few people think think my cane in the cane pouch was the large knife which I thought was kind of funny. Because I live in Tennessee and in Tennessee you can carry any size blade.

I have severe low vision and I am autistic I have cerebral palsy, Tourette's syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder. I am 33 and dating is hard. I was engaged about 4 years ago she knew about my disabilities before we got engaged but she broke up with me and move to another state and married to another guy and now she's getting another divorce.

I use a Ambutech graphite white cane it is the lightest and strongest material they can make a white cane out of. But I use my cane so much the end of my graphite cane broke off yesterday so I had to buy a new one and I only had that cane since July.

I heard from time to time that I’m not blind. In school, I was too blind and now I’m not blind enough for some people.

Hello and thank you for your video. It came up on my feed. You do a wonderful job describing and you are very articulate. I hope all is well ❤

I’m not sure if you were still reading the comments from this video from several years ago, but I’m glad you were thoughtful enough to record and post your thoughts and your ways of working with your inability to see in your career. I had to leave my job due to some physical disabilities after my daughter was born, and then I suffered to retinal detachments and glaucoma surgeries, hence I am now vision impaired, and I am considering going back into practice as a licensed social worker. However, my license expired during the time of my disability thinking of studying to retake that exam feels somewhat overwhelming. I know if I break it down I may be able to do it one step at a time but my thoughts and went to what about recordkeeping and what about taking notes and what about this or that so it was nice to hear you answera lot of my fears and concerns in this video. It would be great to touch base if that were an option. Hope everything’s going well for you Kimberly.

It is so awesome that you shared this information, thank you. You are genuinely honest, caring , compassionate and I wish you much success!

Congratulations! My youngest is named Lyla as well! Lyla Rose ❤️ I hope you post more blind mom videos I am going blind and it’s been such a journey while also trying to parent three children who also have their own struggles. Two of my children have RP and the one that the RP skipped has ADHD. Seeing other low vision/blind moms helps me feel like I’m not alone.

I just wanted to say that I am very happy for you, your husband and your family. I have retinitis pigmentosa and I had to move to a different city due to family reasons. I had to quit my good job and now I am struggling to find one. I was just wondering what you do for work And if you had any resources, you could help me with to work from home possibly. Please let me know at your earliest convenience. Thank you. -Seth

Can confirm that medela is super simple and conpletely tactile, no screen. Now they make pump parts that fit right in the bra, but I found that for me, the cone shaped breast shields extract more milk

I so enjoyed listening to this video! So much of what you say and describe is incredibly validating. You are amazing and such a wonderful momma! 🩷🤗🫶🏻 I never thought of using the bags as a way to actually gauge if you have a flow and to have an idea of how much you are getting from each pumping session. I could not agree with you more regarding the difficulty and effort that pumping takes, especially when you are in so much pain post birth. It is already difficult to develop that bond with your baby as a blind mom, and the frustration and pain associated with feedings just makes things harder. Thank you, again, for continuing to share your story! You always make my heart smile! It is so important that these things are shared to help expecting mommas not only have a heads up, but feel validated in the difficulty. I know I wish I could’ve watched your videos prior to having my baby! 🩷🥰🫶🏻

God bless you all family give you all happiness in your life

Nice to know about your experience with your baby and you are hero ❤

Congratulations to you and your husband! She’s absolutely beautiful! God bless your family ❤

It not like I think blind women be great blind moms, but is there a support group that help each other? If so where are they?

Still not a parent. Still not a mom. Still not a woman. Yet I'm still watching LOL

Hope you and baby are doing well. Hope everything‘s going all right. You look nice. Love your hair.

Taptic Time is one of my favourite features on my Apple Watch, I like that I can check what time it is discreetly like everyone else.

The one I get the most is that I am intelligent and can’t understand anything , but I have learned to be assertive and let people know That I do have an education . That’s my worst pet peeve a lot of times I go on dates with my husband and the waiter or waitress will talk to him to get my order instead of talking to me .

Hey, firstly i want to say i love your channel name. When you start a video and introduce yourself ‘hey it’s Cayla. You should say he it’s Cayla With a C haha. On a more serious note … i have been legally blind for many years but now am a bit housebound as i need to start using a cain but am awaiting training. But also i have been considering learning brail. If you think of the effort you had to put in to learn brail and the benefits of learning brail … would you recommend i put in the effort as an adult, or shall i just stick with text to speech and other technological solutions? If you did not know brail, would you learn today?

One blind guy told me he sat on someone’s lap on a bus!!! Haha

lol your stories made me laugh and cringe at the same time as all of these are things i have also had to go through. It’s so true about the either look stupid or look rude thing. I have been legally blind for over a decade. I have not met another blind person or seen any blind related videos. I just started looking through them no as i have started my own KZbin channel and I’m binge watching videos from so many blind KZbinrs. It’s like i found my people. lol.

Hi, I’m 23. One day I would like to have a child on my own. I’ve been looking at videos of blind moms because I am blind and I want to know what it’s like and this is the first video that I found.