Physical Therapy

Today we had Physical Therapy, we did more paper work than anything. We set up goals for the next 6 months to achieve. Because of Ella's low muscle tone, she is going to develop slower than I child with normal muscle tone. Which part of me feels really bad, but I also know if we keep on things that she will be okay. We are going to work on making her neck stronger so hold her head up and rolling on her left side. Right now Ella is favoring the right side, she rolls over on it when I am changing her diaper and just laying there. She needs to be rolling on both sides equally. We are going to also work on her holding things, rattle ect. So far she holds things, but she lets go after a few minutes. I am so proud of Ella and the strength she has. Sometimes she gives up and lets her head go to her chest, but I watch her closely and can see that she really wants to try. Early intervention has been such a blessing. I have had parents tell me that early intervention was never told to them and now there children are way behind on developing.

We have our appointment Oct 8th with the orthopedic surgeon to go over her hip. If she ends up in a brace its going to delay things a little bit with her developing. But once the brace is off, we will get back in gear to get her back on track.

Ella was diagnosed a few weeks ago with Thrush, we were able to cure it with a medication from the doctor. But we woke up this morning and its back in full force. So the doctor has called in another medication to hopefully take it away forever. Keeping our fingers crossed.

As far as Ella's acid reflex shes doing great. The doctor put her on Zantac and Previcid and since we started she hasnt cried or arched her back. So hopefully these medications will continue to work and not cause pain.

We have been working on Ella crying in her car seat while in the car. She has done a little better with keeping her acid reflex under control but its still really bad. So we had a suggestion today to swaddle her in the car seat. So we will try that next and see if we have any progress. Any suggestions would be great?

Thanks to all that reads our updates, we appreciate all the support and love for our beautiful girl!