We are doing more hyperbaric oxygen therapy on Melissa in Madison WI. We are doing 30 more 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 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 and item when given a choice. The hard part is trying to figure out what she wants to choose from!

We still continue to try to get her to communicate in other way then crying but there are days that she just scream 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 around 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 when they came home. FYI she loves Cade now as well.