1st thing we would like to share is Jaxon started crawling about a week ago. I was in his room and he crawled up behind me and I was thinking boy he sure got over here fast. So I turned him around and coaxed him with a toy and sure enough he decided using those knees was just the thing. He is all over the place now and getting into everything. We are so proud of him. The months and months of physical therapy finally paid off.
Jaxon also learned how to put objects back into a bucket or any other item. I know this sounds menial to some but its a big step for us. This is usually something that comes pretty natural but it took Jaxon awhile to get the hang of it. Some of its the coordination thing. He still isn't always interested but he knows what he's supposed to do with the shapes. Now on to bigger and better things.
We also had our 1st March for Babies kick off with the corporate crowd. I admit I was extremely nervous speaking. I haven't given a speech since college. It went ok and then the news lady cornered us about doing a short interview for the evening news. I wasn't at all prepared for that. Oh well its all for a good cause, as long as we can recruit walkers to raise money and awareness I'm game.
The very best part of our week was Jaxon's very 1st appointment with the KU Med Center feeding team. It was a very productive appointment. 2 pediatric psychologist, 2 speech therapist, 1 dietitian and an ooccupational therapist were present and our local speech therapist joined us in Kc to attend. The entire appointment consisted of us getting to know their roles and them getting to know us and Jaxon's history of eating. At the end of the session, they asked if they could see Jaxon eat something. I had brought a little puree baby food, he hadn't seen any food in at least 2 months. As I tried to get him to accept a tiny little taste he just clamped his mouth shut and refused other than tasting what got on his lips. So I decided to have Jason give it a try, and what do you know that little stink opened his mouth for Daddy and took bites like he does it all the time. He even moved toward the spoon and was laughing about it. They saw that anymore than a taste and he gets overwhelmed and sometimes chokes. So the plan for the next month is to give him tiny tastes for 5 min 3 times a day. We are hoping he will build up enough confidence we can give him some good sized bites for a swallow study in 1 month to see exactly where the food goes as he tries to swallow. We will then go from there as to the plan of action. I'm just so excited he even opens his mouth for food. I think in the last 2 months he has forgotten all the horrible episodes from the past. Now maybe we can start on the right foot with good experiences.
Our little guy is changing so fast, and we are so extremely proud of him.
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