Emilia is 8 months corrected and 11 months and a week old actual. Yup it has been almost a year since the bitter sweet day she was born.
We went to the 8-month follow up clinic on May 3 and got to visit the NICU to say hello.Luckily one of her primary nurses was on duty this time. She was holding Emilia and pinching her chubby cheeks.
There was a family of a 25 weeker whose birth weight was about the same as Emilia's. They came to peek at Emilia and were amazed to see a "normal" looking baby. I once was in their shoes. I remember seeing a former 24 weeker being discharged and he was HUGE compared to all the babies around us. That gave us some hope in knowing that ours would one day grow and come home too.
The follow-up clinic told us Emilia needs to work on her ab muscles. Strengthening those muscles will better enable her to crawl. Emilia does not get onto her knees when reaching over while seated. She just bends her back, which doesn't help her to get into a crawling position. Other than that she was progressing nicely.
I need to work on transitional poses/movements: sitting up from the lying down, lying down from sitting, side sitting to crawling, etc. We had a visit by Early Intervention this morning and the EI does not think there is any sign that warrants physiotherapy right now. She was very content with Emilia's progress. I don't know if I should be content also or push for physio. We will have to watch how she develops in the next month so that we can resume the therapy before she falls too far behind.
