Tuesday, August 21, 2007

I'm not really so happy about this

...although, being of a morbid and pessimistic turn of mind at times, I suppose I see this, too :-(

I see dead Sarah.

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I'm not so happy with this, either, to be honest:

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Daisy.

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But this amuses me:

We can't stop here. This is Mark country.

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Squishy and flexible

I almost forgot!: the physical therapist also told us that Daisy is unusually flexible and loose-jointed. She said that might in some way be hindering her from walking, which I'm not sure I understand. But maybe she'll be great at yoga, and gymnastics, and stuff. (I had always noticed her pulling her leg straight up in the air, but I just thought all babies did that.)

Monday, August 13, 2007

My daughter is squishy

We took Daisy to a physical therapist at Kaiser today, just to find out some more information about where she is in the great Motor Skills scheme of things. (She crawled very late--at 12 months--and still doesn't crawl much; cruises only just a very little; has pulled up maybe 3 times.) I realize that all children hit developmental milestones at different times, and there is no "right" age for babies to do things, but there seemed no harm in just checking in with a physical therapist. She was a nice person and we found the session helpful--she gave Daisy a very thorough looking over, identified some areas to work on, and gave us some instructions on how we can encourage Daisy a little more at home to explore the use of different muscles and positions. Basically, there is nothing wrong with her (knock on wood), but the therapist said she would be less frustrated and more stimulated if we encouraged her to try some new things out.

But this is the part that cracks me up. The therapist told us Daisy is a bit, and I quote, "soft and squishy." This is the layman's way of saying she is slightly "low tone" or hypotonic; her muscle tone is not very developed and she is not particularly strong. Yet, anyway. Luckily, she is not the softest or squishiest baby the therapist had ever seen, and still on the normal side of things, but a bit squishy.

I realize it's ridiculous for this choice of words to have affected me the way they did, but honestly, I felt like someone had whumped me with a sack of bricks. "Does this mean she's always going to be chosen last in gym class?" I whimpered. "Does it mean no one will want her on their side in dodgeball?" My own horrible experiences with the above flooded over me. To give the therapist credit, she didn't sugarcoat it. "Maybe," she said.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

Another question

Did your child, at age one, sleep twelve hours at night? Daisy has been sleeping ten if we're lucky--MAYBE eleven once in awhile. (And of course, lately there have been screaming interruptions in the middle of this.) I didn't dare even hope for 12, but I've talked to some folks who are getting 12 and am wondering now. (My sleep book, though, says 9-10 hours at night is the average for a one-year-old, with two or three hours of naps during the day.)