Tyler who is now 2.5 years old, and use to be in speech therapy due to delayed speech( we stopped speech therapy around last November), has now developed a stutter. It only happens about 1/2 the time, and it seems like when he is processing the thought at the same time as trying to utter the words is when it happens the most. If he was repeating something that you ask him too such as a short sentence, then he doesnt have any trouble. I asked DH if he had noticed it, and he said that he indeed has, and we both didnt think too much of it. Well now its getting worse, and Im not sure if we think its getting worse because we now know he does it and we are trying to "monitor" the situation to see if its getting worse, or if it really is...Ill probably call Early Intervention just in case. Technically Tyler was a premie born at 35 weeks 6 days, so just shy of 36 weeks , but he weighed in at over 7 lbs! He didnt have any trouble at birth, although shortly after he was born I noticed something was wrong while nursing him. It started to feel like he was pinching me when he nursed, so we met with his nurse practioner and she diagnosed him with a short frenulum, the thingy that connects your tongue to the mouth( the little tendon under your tongue). He didnt have a long enough frenulum to be able to stick his tongue out far enough to nurse correctly...in fact it was so short he had a clefted tongue, it formed a deep "V" when he did try to stick it out. So Ill update on that and try to get him on camera so you all can see and maybe give me some advice :(
Other than that, today was a good day. Its been stormy on and off here, really windy so no outside play even though the temperature was nice. We did finish up our Cards we did last night by Kelsey telling me what she wanted the message to say on each one and she finished tracing the dot letters, other than that we just kinda slummed around. I did however make a great trade with a mama for some really nice bamboo diapers for Tyler, shes gonna send me a ton of great dipes, in exchange for me to knit some of her yarn into pants for her little boy... My hopes are to put him back into cloth diapers to save us the $75 a month it costs! Not to mention all that crap, literally, that is going into the land fills....what kind of Earth would my great grand kids have if it continues at this pace? Plus they are so darn cute on him, I just love to pick him up and pat his fluffy butt! Ill definately post pictures of those when they come!
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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