PT & OT

Lauren is now getting her Tennessee Early Intervention services weekly for an hour.  During these sessions we talk about her progress... and make plans on her future and work on her developmental things.  It's working out nicely and Lauren appears to enjoy the extra attention.  Although, her time allotted is typically during a nap time, so she often gets very sleepy towards the end.

Lauren has also began going weekly for half an hour to a physical therapy session one day and an occupational therapy session another day.  It's been really nice to be able to move forward with her development.  I get a lot of feedback and ideas on things that I can do at home with her.

It is ABSOLUTELY amazing at the things that we take for granted with our healthy children.  I never once thought about having to teach my other two daughters so many typically easy developments and milestones.  But with Lauren its so many things that really have to be intensely targeted and worked on.  It is honestly a completely different life.  Lauren has already made some progress and I am so super proud of her hard work and the way she tolerates things.  She is so adorable, sometimes she even pants from exhaustion after an exercise. 

She got her results back too from her PT on the Peabody test.  It was a little surprising in some areas, and others weren't too much of a shock.  It just really leaves us a lot of room for improvement and progress, which we will work really hard for.  She has some really great goals set ahead of her and I look forward to her achieving each of these and some nearby milestones.

Results:

                        Age Equivalent             Percentile

Reflexes           5 months                            25

Stationary        6 months                            37         

Locomotion     2 months                              5

Lauren does wonderfully with her core strength.  She absolutely LOVES to sit up, and for a long time we have been sitting her straight up with support.  Over the past few weeks Lauren has really gone forward and has began to sit up on her own for a little bit at a time.  I am soooo incredibly pleased and proud of her.  The PT is very surprised and happy with this ability.  We just need to work on other things and keep her moving forward.

Holding her upper-body up!

Playing with grandma keeping her body upward.  What a strong little girl!