Honey, your friend should be just fine. So much about raising children is by intuition and heart. If baby is fussy, she'll hear. If baby is sick she'll feel the fever, hear the boogies, cough, and trouble breathing. If it is and emergency, that also can be felt or heard. And like most blind people I'am sure she can get to a phone. For all other reasons learning CPR is imperrative in the care of children, and that goes for all parents blind or sighted. Your a good friend to be so concerned. As for my Xmas I worked Sat, Sun, and Mon. So I came home ate a tamale with my mommy, watched a movie and went to bed. I am gone from 6am to 815pm when I work. Gosh, I hope that Xmas you were describing about the drunk abusive people wasnt about you. But it is unfortunate that there is people/children in this world that suffer through that.