Sunday, July 5, 2009

So innocent....

Just a short update on Cohen's progress. She is doing GREAT! She is waking us up each morning to some sweet sounds and we can't complain. She has started to ooh and aah a good bit and making some hard consonant sounds when she is good and awake. We found out that she tends to do better in the morning especially when well rested and full! She is holding her bottle now, which is big for us just for the sake of time because it still takes he about 20 minutes to finish a bottle. So now she can hang out in her bouncy seat each morning and take her time. Still no crawling but she can get to whatever she wants! She scoots and spins constantly. She will get to furniture and can get up on her knees and really wants to pull up, so we will see if she even crawls. Again we wont complain that she isnt quiet so mobile but definitely not delayed yet!
If you look at her you would think that she has grown 2 sizes but the scales still dont show it. She is hanging out around 14lbs 5oz and 24-25in long. These are both in the >1% growth percentile but all we can do is encourage food whenever she wants it. She had her first surgery a couple weeks ago, she got tubes. We opted for those for 2 reasons: 1: we thought it was affecting her hearing which in turn affected her speech and 2: it affected her ability to suck on the bottle because of the pain it was causing. We have seen a great improvement in both areas. She is a trooper with her medicine, she has to take a pill, yes you read that right A PILL, each morning and can't eat for at least 30 minutes. Well that wouldnt be too bad but she has to wait the 30 min and then take her Prevacid which would like her to wait another 30 min to eat! She really does well and tries to be patient.
She really is doing so well compared to where she started! We are so thankful and encouraged by her.

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