Little Sis is already making huge progress just in the three weeks of therapy so I wanted to share some of the really cool things we are seeing.
She now sleep on her side instead of her back. I know that sounds really strange, but this is something to be excited about, beacuse we use to put her to bed/nap (on her back) and come back to get her in three hours or in the morning and she would not have moved one inch. Now she is waking herself up at night because she is moving around so much that she gets cramped near the edge.
Little Sis is tolerating belly time much better. We have to do her nuerological retraining every few hours which used to really bother her, but now she just lays there while we rub her back without complaining at all. She still doesn't like the joint compression that follows but we are getting there. During belly time she has gotten where she can stay up like the picture shows for a minute or so before she falls. She still can't push herself back up again, but she is working on it.
As you can see she is able to look up when she is sitting now! She has a whole new perspective of the world with seeing more than just the floor. I never realized what a difference this would be. Now I often catch her watching the ceiling fans and watching what I am doing just because she is able to lift her head.
Other things we have seen her do recently are rolling her wrists, reaching for toys that she drops, leaning around people or objects to see what is going on, grabbing everything in site, using her arms to push herself back up when she is sitting and falls forward, playing with toys and banging them together constantly both infront of her and above her head, pulling a blanket off her face for peek a boo, and taking your hand off of hers when we try to hold it down during our practice sessions.
We are so thankful for Pat (Case Manager), Whitney (Physical Therapist) and Cathy (Occupational Therapist) for their amazing support.
Pockets is also huge help!
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