A Year Ago

A year ago this month, our minds were racing with words like cerebral palsy, and hypertonia. For me I did hours of internet searching on these words (and other words that came up along the way), just to try and find answers to why our daughter was not sitting or rolling. The more I read the more I worried and the more questions I had. Since then a lot has happened, I've learned not to read to much into what I find online, though some of it has helped me understand things, they usually are writing about the worse cases and that's what makes you worry. Cuz of M's therapist's, she's doing great. She's only slightly behind in her fine motor skills(and then we have the sensory issues, but we aren't counting that right now). I finally feel like I can semi breathe, since we are starting to see how this will effect her as she grows. There are still a lot of unanswered questions left and we are still searching for the "what" that is causing everything, but I'm starting to feel like we are getting somewhere.

As far as M's OT evaluation today it went great. She qualifies for OT(not that I really doubted it), and her new therapist is great. She was talking about wanting her to go at lest once a week, but maybe even twice a week. The best news is that she's a GREAT candidate for the sensory program. She did have some thoughts on her balancing issue. Which was that she thinks it maybe her eyes, that they are not "seeing" depth that in conjunctions with her sensory issues on space could affect balance/falling. So I'm thinking I might try and find a pediatric eye dr for her so we can have it checked out. At this point I'm pretty much ready to check out everything. She also told me about this book on parenting sensory issued children. I checked it out on line and it looks really helpful so when we go for our play date at the mall tomorrow I'm going to see if I can find it. So all in all it was a wonderful and informative meeting.