Our family's journey through life

Today Owain had a follow up with his physical therapist. The last time Owain was evaluated by his physical therapist was when he was two months old. At that time Owain was doing everything developmentally right on track. She didn't think that Owain needed to be seen until now. She was very pleased with his progress. She said that he has hit most of his six month mile stones. He is rolling over from front to back,back to front,he scoots all over the place. He can sit up all by himself (still a little wobblie and tends to loose his balance and fall over). She gave us some handouts of some exercises to do at home to help him gain more balance while sitting and to get him to go from sitting to laying down all by himself. The visit went very well considering it was Owain's nap time. He enjoyed playing with all the cool toys. Owain does not need to go back to physical therapy until he is ten months old. So in the mean time we will work on these exercises at home. Oh and another thing we need to work on his his upper body strength. When on his belly he tends to get tired easy and want to rest his head. I think maybe his head might be to heavy for him. LOL.He does wear twelve month hats and everything else he wears is three months to six months.


Here is a picture of Owain practicing sitting. Trying to crawl...you can do it!
Therapist trying to get Owain to crawl.
As you can see he had other plans. Silly boy!

One thing that the Physical Therapist brought to our attention is that she read on Owain's discharge chart from Legacy Emmanuel is that he has T11 Hemiventebrae. From her professional opinion it doesn't' seem to be affecting him as of right now. It is something to keep a close eye on as he grows. I was a little frustrated when we heard of this as this was the first time it was brought to our attention. The Doctors at Legacy never brought this to our attention! How are we suppose to keep a close eye on something that no one even bothered to tell us? Don't get me wrong the Doctors at Legacy were amazing with Owain's care. Some how this was over looked and I plan on speaking with Dr.Zigman about it and we will learn more when Owain has his next xray at nine months. I also plan on getting a copy of all of his medical records.

After Physical Therapy we had Owain get his weight check. He now weighs 13lbs. 9.5oz he has put on a little bit of weight since his last weight check six weeks ago. At that time he weighed 12lbs. 7.5oz. He still is only in the one percentile as far as weight. The good news is he hasn't lost any weight since leaving the NICU. We plan on getting in contact with DR.H his pediatrician and re evaluating his feeding plan. We might have to up his calorie in take. Right now he is on a 25 cal with his formula. I am not to terrible concerned as long as he is on the curve and not loosing any weight I am ok with that.