9 Months!!

We made it to 9 months!!! :D

Today we had an PT appointment as well as the 9 month well-baby appointment.

I think the visits with the therapist are working well.  I definitely feel as she is helping me understand what I can do to help get Dean on track to being where he should be developmentally.  Today we worked on getting him used to putting weight on his legs and lifting his chest off the floor.

The well-baby visit went well as well!! :D  Sometimes I feel like the PCP is the low man on totem pole of doctors (which, she is).  She was happy to know that the PT was coming out to the house (thought we had it sooner then we did) and was a bit concerned that the home nurse's visits were cancelled due to insurance not wanting to pay for them anymore.  We tried to cut back to every other week, but they said that if he was well enough for them to cut back visits, he was well enough for him to not have any visits.

And he's now 14 pounds!!!!!!!

Insurance sucks.

That's it for now!  Off to see the Cardiologists in Boston tomorrow.

Food

Food has (and I have a feeling that it will continue to be) an issue with Dean since he came home. It's been a challenge to get the required amount of calories in him so that he can grow. Now that Mr. PointZeroFourPercentile is old enough to be eating solid foods, it's been a struggle to find foods that 1. He'll eat and 2. That meet the calories that he needs. So, I've been only feeding him solids at dinner time here, so he still gets the majority o his calories from formula. Today was the exception.

The Boston nutritionist told me that it was okay for him to have (lots of fat) yogurt around 9 months. He is 9 months in 5 days, so I bought some GoGurt. I have now discovered what yogurt I SHOULD have bought, but he REALLY likes the GoGurt!!! I mean, REALLY REALLY likes it!

Success!!! :D

Physical Therapist

Today the therapist came to the house to check Dean out. We talked while she did her stuff, and she noticed that in addition to Dean not using his left hand and foot as well as his right, he rolls over his left arm but not his right. So, we are to keep him blocked from rolling over his left arm and help him roll over his right for a bit each day as well as get him to sit up (with help, of course!).

I think it went well. I think Dean will like her just fine, he seemed to be warming up to her nicely by the time she left. I just need to figure out when would be a good time for her to come by every week.

The Boston people tweaked his formula after the last visit. I'm hoping that they will see the difference that they're hoping to see.

Not much else going on at the moment. I think I'm okay with that.