Sabrina’s website has been updated. New pictures from June, July and August have been added. We are a bit over one month away from her first birthday. We have reached a point that was beyond our sight twelve months ago. She is happy, she is healthy… we have some issues, but we are working on them. Can’t ask for anything more.
I figure with a dad like me, Sabrina will eventually need therapy… I just figured it would be later in life… this is a bit early. Oh, Heather tells me its not that type of therapy. We have been going to a physical therapist and an occupational/speech therapy team. The physical therapist is in hopes of getting her core muscles and arms stronger so she will crawl and her ribs will drop and open properly. The occupational/speech team is for some feeding issue. I am told she has a thrust reflex in her eating which is causing problems with adjusting to the more solid foods. I have been to the physical appointments with Heather and Heather has gone to the feeding appointment. Since starting with the physical therapist we are already seeing some positive results and Heathers exercise ball is seeing more use than a giant toy for the boy. Ok, that’s not quite right, she does use it, just not as much as Douglas plays with it.
Speaking on therapy, Heather and I both left the first appointment feeling like the worst parents on the block. Feeling like, what else could we have done wrong and would we ever get past CDH. With two weeks of hind sight I can say that it had nothing to do with us as parents or our skills, it has everything to do with learning as you go. So, that being said, if you have a CDH baby and you have developmental concerns, do not listen to your second cousin’s aunt who says that her college roommate’s brother’s sister’s uncle never crawled, so that’s normal. Take your baby to your doctor and get her evaluated. The earlier you catch these things the easier they are to fix.
She is still a happy go lucky baby unless she’s hungry or as we learned recently she isn’t quite so happy with the addition of tooth number one. Of course, it would need to appear the weekend she had a nasty cold too. Poor kid, couldn’t win for anything that weekend. Other than that she is kicking everything in sight, if its kick-able she has probably kicked it. I suppose its a better hobby than chewing the furniture.
Douglas starts preschool in two weeks… I suspect he is ready, but I’m not. I am not sure how I will adjust to him being under someone else’s care… he, on the other hand, will probably be just fine. Heather has finished her first dance class in 10 years and had a ball… no, not ballroom dancing. I am running my first 5k just before the boy starts preschool, and the family received notice from the Medical Examiners office of New York City this week that more 9/11 remains have been identified.
That really about rounds things out for now. The good, the bad… well you know the rest.