Day 4

Yesterday was a noteworthy day. S put a toy up to her mouth and almost touched it to her lips. She doensn't put toys or anything else in her mouth. Then came last night. She woke up and was crying. This is unusual because she always has been a great sleeper. We didn't get in the amount of therapy we should have yesterday, but we still got a lot in. Did this have anything to do with her waking up? I just don't know. What was eventful was when her big sister came into the room, she went to her arms from mine. I left for a minute so I could preare to be in her room until she fell back asleep. I returned and took her back. She was a little reluctant, but was okay. Then her dad came in the room to see why she had woken up. She immediately wanted to go to him. I could see she preferred anyone but me, so I asked for her back. She didn't go willingly, but settled down after a few minutes. I was able to sit down with her finally and rock her. This was pretty huge for her. She struggled with a bunch of different positions, but finally faced me. She fell asleep and I sat with her for a while to make sure she was really asleep. I placed her back in her bed and she slept through the night. I really think she was fighting back a little since we've been having so much eye contact and closeness over the past few days.

Today had lots of eye contact. I am being more demanding with it and she is complying. We did as much of our therapy as we could today. The tummy crawling is still the hardest, but we still get as much time in as we can. I don't know if this counts, but I drag her around on a blanket on her tummy all around the house. Her whole front is touching the floor, and she rests her head in her hands as she is pulled along on the floor. For our vestibular excercises, I sit on my office chair with her on my lap and we spin in all different positions. She never gets dizzy, but I do, even though we always spin in the opposite direction the same amount of times. I give her lots of sensory stimulation by touching her and giving gentle squeezes. She's tolerating all of it really well. The burden of it is really all on us because she is so young. So far so good. I don't know how much or even if she is being helped by all of this, but it's very encouraging so far.