Physical Therapy Appointment

 

 Well, Melanie is improving and can roll really well from her back onto her belly from the left side. Although at her appointment she just laid there on her back. Can't quite sit up yet, and so we need to work on rolling from belly to back and from back to belly on the right side, and sitting. And since she is still not eating, that correlates to low muscle tone. So eating is delayed, fine motor skills delayed, just all around slow. Makes me a little sad, but she is her own person and she will get it. We are going to be meeting with the physical therapist every two weeks now. Hopefully we can work hard with her and get her more caught up. She is 8 months old, but developmentally about a 5 1/2 month old. 

I think she is getting stranger anxiety, every time the therapist would take Melanie, she would cry, and then she would give her back to us and she would calm down.

And her two teeth on the side of her two front top teeth finally popped through, you could see them just hanging out up there, but they finally poked through, which could be why she didn't go down to sleep that well. 

She was really quite sober today, no one could really make her smile.

 Except for Julie, she can always seem to get Melanie to smile, and I love it!

 Since now rolling over, we no longer use the rice socks for positioning since she is strong enough scoot up and roll onto her belly. We lay her on her back and she instantly goes to her belly and that is how she sleeps.

So we might be using the program that the University does called "Up to 3", or something, they evaluate Melanie, and anything she is behind in, they come to our house and help her with for free. My friend told me about this program, and then our Physical Therapist mentioned it today. So Michelle, if you are reading this, I would love some more information.

Slow progress, but good progress!