Katrina is eight months pregnant with a baby girl. However, there is one thing that has her concerned about the future of her new family. There was simply no way of knowing what would happen to the little one until the day she was born. Katrina and her twin sister were born deaf to a hearing family. The condition can skip a generation, but there's no way of knowing when or how. The fact that she and her husband Josef are both deaf also made the factor unpredictable.
It isn't that the couple feels less capable or happy because they cannot hear, so much as they are aware of how easy it is to be excluded by those who can. Would their baby girl grow up always feeling different? The pregnant mother's concern grew when she noticed her baby never responded to sound in the womb. For her, it was a warning of what was to come, then came the day her little one was born…
Katrina and her twin sister were born deaf. Although it wasn't lonely because they could communicate with each other, Katrina quickly learned that she and her sister were different.
"I didn't feel totally isolated because we could communicated with each other. But also we didn't feel fully included in family life… Everybody else was laughing and enjoying themselves and me and my sister just sat there…" she said. "That's when I realized we were different from other people."
As the family would gather around the TV, in the days before closed captioning, they would sit and watch without a clue as to what the family was immersed in. Katrina grew up wondering: would her children have the same fate?
Katrina and her husband Josef are both deaf. While Katrina can hear a little with the help of a hearing aid, when she takes it out, she can't hear words at all. The couple mostly communicates with sign language. When Katrina became pregnant, she worried that her baby girl would be deaf, too.
Throughout Katrina's pregnancy, she noticed one thing about her unborn baby.
"It's not moving, it's not moving to sound. Maybe the baby's lazy, I don't know. But for me, as a mother, I am thinking maybe the baby is deaf. I don't know…" she said.
Watch as Katrina and Josef get the amazing news that their newborn little girl can hear in the video below!
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