Vera is not so lax now. Back to her usual hand-sucking self. She's smiling much more again, so it's a relief. She got me worried for a while. This week, we'll be seeing a dietician to get more clarity on her nutritional needs. Her milk intake has reduced, and she doesn't seem to need as much as before. We hope to find out if this is normal. Plus she can't start on semi-solids, so how's she going grow well?
Some therapy updates:
1) Torticollis - With the stretching exercises we're doing, she's turning more easily towards her right side now, her stiffer side. Lots of work still needed though.
2) Feeding Therapy - We're starting to desensitize her mouth using the toothette and to train her to suck on a pacifier. Naturally, she pushes them out at the moment. It's early days. But least we're actively doing something.
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You are doing so good May! You are starting way before I did on the mouth issues. It may take a while but you are way ahead. Also about the head, no one really mentioned that term, but Annabel still favors one side. It is very stiff and her therapist now is doing things for this. Thank you for the post that things are looking a little better. Will keep praying for precious Vera to have consistent intake. Hoping you get some clarity on the nutritional issues.
vera looks so cute with the pacifier! hope the dietician has some good recommendations for you guys.
as for the torticollis, kaiya also had issues with that when she was smaller. her therapists did stretching with her, but what seemed to work best is when they used kinesiotape along with the stretching.
How to beautiful to see Vera back in form again.
She is starting way ahead of our kids...
I just have this feeling, she is making progress.
Thanks for sharing your fears with us when things werent going well last week.
Am glad the lite is shining again.
God Bless this angel.
We have been able to give our daughter pureed baby foods through her tube, but of course, it's a tube in her tummy, so its' a little bigger in diameter than one that goes through the nose. Are you still expressing your milk? I was so impressed that you were doing it by hand, because I never could do that - I use a pump.
Is there a way for you to make up a yahoo email address just for us bloggers to email you when there's a lot to share or more than we want to share in the comments?
oops - found the email address in the profile page. I was only looking on the front page.
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