Deaf dh any one with same?????

[mummymelling]

Hi there,very new to this , anyone else got a Deaf dh, ???

Hi there, very new too, is that a totally deaf dh or a selectively deaf one! My dp is partially deafin one ear, but totaly deaf hen being asked to do things

Hi there no dh is profoundly Deaf, but lip reads amazingly well and has very good speech,as well as being totally gorgeous lol

not yet but it's coming - his mum is two-hearing-aids deaf and it's early onset.

Do have a very good deaf friend with a 2yo though - apparently his ds has now cottoned onto the fact that daddy can't hear without his aids in and now wakes him up in the morning by trying to shove them into his ears...

badge thats sooo sweet mine just jump on him and scare the life outta him lol

My dh really does have hearing problem but refuses to get it checked out. My evidence of this problem is that :
He often mishears me.
He can never hear me if I call out from next room.
He often misses things in conversations with a group eg in a pub with friends, he repeats a point someone else has made.
On holiday in FRance, he coulndt hear the crickets - and they were really loud.

He's v sensitive about it and would never where a hearing aid at this stage, as he's so vain.

Having a profoundly deaf DH must require a fair bit of adapting with kids. What strategies do your children and he have?

LGJ's dh had a cochlear implant.
Look out for her.

we are still learning just try to keep background noise to a minimum and always talk to his face,never shout or try to do the t a l k r e a l s l o w thing as that just pisses him off hope this helps

thanks thats interesting my dh is totally against them ,but hes about to undergo all the testing for one as they will be better able to sort out his aids after ,so we are told

DH and I both hearing, but dd (10months) is profoundly deaf in both ears. Is your child/children hearing?

MummyMelling

Why oh why would your DH be anti ??

It has changed our lives immeasurably.

Did it take awhile to get used to LGJ,or was he able to 'decode' sounds instantly??

I'm moderately deaf, and I should wear aids but won't. I find it so hard to understand things through hearing aids and simply can't decode. I also lipread and get by fine with this. I can fully understand why somebody wouldn't want a cochlea implant, as there is no way I would want normal hearing. As well as decoding, I couldn't cope with all the background noises that normal hearing people hear.

More or less instantly.

I always tell the tale of post switch on.

We were driving for Southampton to Surrey after switch on, I was ringing everyone to tell them it had worked and he could hear again, I was using his work mobile.

He then heard me saying it is wonderful Sally, he can hear me.

Sally, Sally ??

Sally lives in the Middle East get off my bloody works mobile.

He was using the phone within a month.

thanks for responses,he just thinks its better to have analogue [getting digital as soon as they make one powerful enough for him ].i think its because he dosent like the idea of something attarched to his head and still having the earpiece.he dosent like seeing small kids with implants as he thinks it should be their choice and once its done thats it.the whole Deaf thing is quite a political minefield really ,something i find quite hard to get my head around. both DS are hearing as they are previos husbands.

I would always implant a child, that way they have a chance of keeping up with their peers.

Sorry, but that sort Militant deaf shite,really winds me up.

Sherlocklgj... was your DH born Deaf or Deafened, and what is [was] the level of his hearing loss?
DH thinks he is whjat he is and why would he want to be hearing, he can use certain phones if he switches to loop,and his nokia mobile has a loop he wears around his neck

He went from slightly deaf to profoundly deaf over a period of 3 years and when I say profoundly he could not use the phone.

He had no relationship with our hearing then two year old, he used to withdraw into himself in company. Basically I was losing the man I fell in love with.

Deafness is a curse.

how did he adapt to hearing background noise all the time? I am very sensitive to loud noises as it is, i really dfon't think I could cope with normal hearing.

DH,was deafened at 6wks,they found out at 3yrs old,he had aids after that,do you have any special equipment to help at home [ie] smoke detectors ,baby alarms that type of stuff, as we only just got married and im not sure what is out there wtc etc

K

It gave him a headache for the first day or two, then he was tired for a day or two, then he just got used to it.

Catrin DS1 (5) is deaf, rest of family are hearing, have you been on the NDCS website their chat section is really helpful.

We have an alarm on the house, and we as an additional had a strobe light attached to that, so if I was not here the smoke alarm would go off, so DS would hear it anyway, but it also strobes in our room.

Baby alarm I am afraid that all fell to me.

DH is profound,he lipreads a lot and if im stood behind him and talk, or if he is concentrating on something else he cannot hear me unless i raise my voice

if I was profoundly deaf I would probably feel differently. I can manage though. What I hear is equivilant to what a hearing person can hear underwater, and I am used to it. I don't revel in being deaf at all, and there are times when I wish I had been born hearing, but I don't think I could make the change now.