[maica]

Quick google search:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,680616,00.html


Lesbian couple have deaf baby by choice


David Teather in New York
Monday April 8, 2002
The Guardian

A lesbian couple in the US have attracted fierce criticism by deliberately having a deaf baby.
In an unexpected twist to the pursuit of "designer" offspring, the couple, who are both deaf, said they had wanted a child that would be like themselves. The four-month old boy is profoundly deaf in his left ear and has only residual hearing in his right.

[Elsie]

... they had wanted a child that would be like themselves. The four-month old boy ....

I'd be grabbing my goodies, son, for your Mommie's haven't quite got the 'ideal'; yet!