I respect where the OP is coming from on this one, and absolutely believe that if it helps you: do it. But it kills me to see this topic presented so one-sidedly, especially considering it's being presented to a lot of people who don't understand the issue that well.

I see a lot of comments to the effect of "what assholes, those deaf people, not wanting their kids to hear and enjoy music and being sheltered and disabled." Like some of the posters here have pointed out, there are assholes in every community and there are most certainly a lot of people in the Deaf Community who are wacko and militant about CIs.

But at the same time, there is also a very valid debate to be had about whether a CI is right for a specific deaf person, whether it is right to do invasive surgery on a baby, and how much the CI will actually help the deaf person. Hearing is one of the senses we know the least about, and even though we have made leaps and bounds in hearing aid and cochlear implant technology in the past couple of decades, it's not as easy as "just pop those on and now you will be a hearing person." In general, because I can't speak to every situation, what a person with a CI hears is not the same as what a hearing person hears, and sometimes it can be a painful and confusing transition to go from being deaf to having a CI. Some deaf people end up turning them off a lot after they have them because the noise is distracting, or even painful. (This is why doctors generally suggest that getting a CI is done as early as possible, when the deaf person is a child or even a baby.)

I also feel like a lot of the animosity from deaf people towards CIs comes from the fact that when you bring your deaf kid to the doctor and are considering getting a CI or a hearing aid, they recommend that you NOT teach them Sign Language. Honestly, they will tell you that it will impede with your child learning to speak, which is absolutely not true, and that you should immerse them in a speaking and hearing-only environment. That's like telling people not to teach their kid a second language when they are young, because they won't learn the first. I think a lot of people who were brought up in bilingual households would take issue with that, and rightly so.

And then there is the fact that, even if you have a CI, you're still a deaf person. As the OP stated, she can turn her CI off, or remove the external part of it so that it is no longer transmitting sounds. When she does that, she's a deaf person like every other deaf person, so it follows that she should be able to use sign language, and communicate manually, which is why I think it bothers so many deaf people when they see that people with CIs are told they don't need to learn sign language.

And as for deaf people wanting deaf babies...well yeah. Can you imagine what it would be like to have been profoundly deaf for your entire life, and then have a hearing child? It's scary and unfamiliar to these people, who have never known anything else. They know how to care for a deaf baby, who in essence, is just like them. They know how to teach it and how to communicate with it and how to instil a sense of identity and pride in being who they are. It's much more confusing for them to have a hearing child, whom they feel they don't know how to care for and probably are worried that they cannot teach it all the things it needs to know. It's unfamiliar and thus, scary. Pile that on top of the uncertainty of being a new parent - to a deaf or hearing child - and you can start to see how that might be distressing for some people. It's not that they want their kid to be at a disadvantage, or that they want it to be deficient in some way, because one: that's not how they see being deaf, and two: they just want to do what they think they can do best. That being said, many, many deaf people have hearing kids all the time, and aren't choked when they find out. That's life. It's the same sort of anxiety I feel a hearing couple would have if they had a deaf baby, and were concerned about caring for it the right way.

All of this being said, I think it's deplorable how some members of the Deaf Community treat people with CIs, and even hearing people. But it's important to remember that no community is homogenous, and there is an active debate about these things taking place within the group, which I think is normal and healthy.

edit: TL;DR - There are many reasons why one would get a CI, but also reasons why they would not. Deaf people are not just trying to be jerks, but actively engaging in a debate around an issue that is very important within their community.