May 24, 2010
Swimming all the time-Melissa is having a ball swimming in the pool where we are staying. She is having her ups and downs as normal while we are treating it is most common for us to see the “big” changes when we get home.
I feel like we are seeing even more understanding with her when asking her questions. She is even more consistant with shaking her head ”yes” and “no”. We are meeting with a speech therapist while we are here. She is very excited with what she is seeing with Melissa and is going to work on a picture system for Melissa. I am so excited that we are working toward giving Melissa more options to communicate. This picrure system will ultimately give her way more opportunities to communicate with us what she needs.
May 17, 2010
We are doing more hyperbaric oxygen therapy on Melissa in Madison WI. We are doing 30 more treatments when we are done Melissa will have done 136 treatments. We decided to come now while the babies will sleep about anywhere and non-mobile. I’m sure by fall I will not be wanting to be out and about as much with Melissa, Ruben, and Tayla.
My hope with these treatments is that Melissa will sit up on her own. The ability to sit up would open more opportunities for Melissa. I would be thrilled if she could learn to feed herself and a way to communicate full time without crying and complaining.
Melissa sat up without support for 10 seconds on Sat! It is a huge start consitering a year ago she wasn’t even doing that good of a job supporting her upper body let alone balancing by herself.
Her body is getting long, long, long she has grown over 4 inches in the last 1/2 year.
She continues to shake her head yes and no more often and with more accuracy. She has also improved so much on her ability to choose an item when given a choice. The hard part is trying to figure out what she wants to choose form!
We still continue to try to get her to communicate in other ways then crying but there are days that she just screams and yells at us out of frustration when we can’t figure what she wants or needs.
She enjoys tayla and Ruben I know this not because she smiles and coos when they are aroud because she doesn’t glare at them like she did when Cade (her nephew) was born. Thanks to Cade she was good with the babies with they came home. FYI she loves Cade now too.