Trucking Along

Things are going pretty good for Miss Rose.  We met with the Physical Therapist last week and she has made great strides in the two weeks we have been doing therapy with her.  Her torticollis has improved and she is rolling over more and sitting up much better.  The therapist was very pleased with her progress.  We are going for therapy again this week to see if she continues to improve.

As far as her hearing, the aids seem to be doing well. She is still responding (most of the time) to sounds and the feedback is minimal.  And they are staying in her ears quite well.  Overall, I am very pleased with the new Widex Baby 440's!  We have another booth sound test next week, so I am hoping that Sadie excels and we find out that her hearing is stable (ie-matching the ABR testing from when she was a newborn).

Now, if only we could get Sadie on a better nighttime schedule.  As soon as she does well and I think she is on a positive path, something changes and it gets all thrown off.  Now she is getting up a couple of times a night, sometimes to eat, sometimes just for her pacifier.  But.....at least she isn't getting up every hour like she was 2 weeks ago....knock on wood :)

Here are a few new pictures of my baby girl...who just turned 7 months....my how time flies!!!!

Tort-a-What?

As you might recall from my last blog entry, Sadie was diagnosed with a minor case of Torticollis.  This is basically a slight head tilt.  I had never even heard of this condition prior to the doctor mentioning it at our 6 month check up.  Since then, though, I have heard from lots of friends that either they had it, their child had it, or their student had it.  And almost all of kids had the issue corrected with physical therapy.

So today we had our first appointment with a physical therapist, and she was excellent.  She said Sadie's tilt is very minor and it should easily be corrected with physical therapy.  My mom and I learned a few exercises that we need to work on with Sadie 3-5 times a day.  We go back in 2 weeks for an additional consult and to review her progress.  Sadie was a complete trooper and hardly fussed at all, except when we limited her mobility with some of the stretches. I had to laugh, the PT asked if Sadie was rolling over yet, and I responded "occasionally."  During this session we could not keep Sadie from NOT rolling over.  Every time we put her on her belly, she would roll onto her back.  So apparently she is rolling over more than "occasionally." :)

On another note, we got Sadie's 6 month pictures taken a couple of weeks ago and they turned out amazing.  Hat's off to Wendy Ham with "Simply Moore" photography.  Feel fee to view a few of them on her blog.  Just click on March and "you make me smile."

http://simplymoore-theblog.blogspot.com/

Testing

Sadie had her 1st sound booth test today. Basically what they do is put her on my lap in a sound booth, and put headphones in her ears.  Then they play sounds at different frequencies and decibels to see if she is hearing.  They looked for her to turn her head or smile or any type of reaction that might indicate if she heard what just happened.  They also have these crazy monkeys in a jar on the wall that clap and light up when they push the button.  Kinda funny.  This was all done without her hearing aids to see if our initial testing was accurate.   It went just okay.  She reacted as well as was to be expected for her age.  She didn't react to all sounds, but that is pretty typical of a 6 month old.  She did react at 70db to her audiologists voice.  The audiologist said she was hoping she might have reacted at something closer to 40-50. That doesn't mean that she didn't hear at that level, she just didn't react.  With all that being said, they did decide to turn up her hearing aids at the lower frequencies.  The audiologist said that they were set pretty conservatively to begin with.  They only turned them up 5 db, but I was still a little disappointed.  As any mother would hope, I was wanting them to come back and say that she was hearing better than expected.  But..the most important thing is to get her hearing all the sounds possible.

On a positive note, Sadie's speech therapist said she could definitely tell that she was hearing all of her ling-6 sounds, even the more difficult ones.  Ling-6 sounds are a set of sounds that if someone can hear, then they should be able to hear all the sounds that lie within the speech spectrum.  So that was exciting. 

Sadie also had her 6 month check up on Monday.  She is still a peanut!  25% for weigh (14.1 lbs), 50% for height (25.75 inches) and 60% for head circumference.  She got her shots and was a total trooper. I was so proud.  We did learn, though, that she might have a slight head title called Torticollis.  It is very minor right now, but the doctor still wants to treat it.  He said we could wait to see if it got better on its own, but it is better to be safe and get it fixed now.  So..we are adding physical therapy to our list of weekly to-do's :)  Hopefully it won't take too long to get rectified.

I probably sound like I am complaining about all of Sadie's issues and I don't want it to seem that way.  I know how very lucky I am to have this special girl in my life.  I love her more than words and know that God per her in my life for a reason!  Lot's of people out there have it much worse!!!

Hope everyone has a great week.  Here are a few cute pictures of Miss Rose! (Yes, she is sitting in a laundry...you can thank my mom for that one!) :)