Sunday, November 23, 2008

Boy under a microscope

Quinn's first doctor's appointment led to a flurry of specialist visits.

First up, on Monday he will meet with an internationally know feeding specialist, who happens to live in Tucson. She will work with him on his refusal to eat solid foods. Our first exercise was to track anything he puts in his mouth - that was easy, the answer is nothing! - and to dip the fingers he puts in his mouth in juice and see what he does. He pops them in just like normal.

Next up, he is enrolled in Arizona's Early Intervention program for kids with developmental delays. That will lead him to a physical therapist to get him to use his bad shoulder (his SN is a brachial plexus injury sustained during delivery) and an occupational therapist to work on his walking.

In December, we will visit an international adoption clinic in San Francisco for a thorough analysis of his development, attachment, etc.

This kid is going to see a lot of waiting rooms. We'd better make sure we bring the stacking cups!

5 comments:

Sara said...

Yes, bring the stacking cups!..bring some bright or some "soft-crinkle" books, finger puppets help too...also(this sounds funny but...) When my Sophie was Quinn's age, she loved to hold and "wrinkle/crinkle up" little packages of fruit snacks..or fruities as we call them...She was too little to eat them, but LOVED the shiny little packages and the noise they made. Now, of course, she has figured out that I should open them and break them into little pieces for her :-) I'm telling you...you would have thought I was going on an all day excursion when I would pack up...knowing I would be needing to "entertain" Sophie while Carter was in speech therapy. When he first started I could bring her in with me...and she would just sit on my lap for the 30 min...but when she approached 2yrs..and became quite the chatter box and would ask his speech therapist "Say my words too?" I knew it was time to go for a walk/entertain in the waiting rooms or just walk the halls. I usually went for walks or would find our own little "corner" somewhere, because I did't want her playing with all the germy toys in the waiting room.(I did let her..but always tried to distract her first) Which reminds me, I always have some kind of hand sanitizer packed in the diaper bag too.

Carter finished his speech therapy end of September....with tearful goodbyes from all..But now my Thursday mornings are low-key and not so rushed. Funny thing is...that as we get home with our little Quinn, I'm almost positive that I will right back to my old routine of speech therapy once a week. Oh well, it's a nice excuse to hit the Starbucks drive thru, then after treat the kids to lunch. Carter still likes to pick out his clothes to go see Linda(he HAD to pick out his clothes special for her) but then I remind him that we don't see her anymore, and I can tell he really misses her. It's cute. I told him that pretty soon he'll be the one waiting with me..while Quinn will be in speech(I think).

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving Holiday...You definitely have much to be thankful for!!

Sara said...

oh I forgot to mention...little chunky "lift-a-flap" books are awesome too. I have one with baby animals and a little truck one; Sophie and I would play peek-a-boo with the animals forever. She thought it was so funny. When she got tired of that game, I would say "Oh no, where did the little pig go?" (same book) and she would think it was a totally different book :-)...and so the game continued with finding all the animals that were "sleeping" under the flaps.

Jill said...

Excellent advice, Sara - thanks!

Jill said...

Excellent advice, Sara - thanks!

Jill said...

Excellent advice, Sara - thanks!