Life is fair. I was given another baby when I was pronounced infertile. However life is not always smooth-sailing and my second young one is developing very slowly.
My baby is now 14 months. At 12 months, we realised she cannot get up herself from the floor and always lies on her back. She absolutely hated tummy time. With paediatrician diagnosis, we found out that she has global developmental delays in terms of motor skills and social skills. I really felt like breaking down She apparently looked normal some months back but development seemed to have stopped when she was about 7 months. Her head circumference was below the 3rd percentile for growth although weight and height were still acceptable. It seemed that the neuronal circuitry is somewhat not as dense as it should be.
Trying hard to accept that our kid would be slow, we had started physiotherapy fo inr her. The positions that the therapist wanted her to sit or lie were uncomfortable for her. We had gone for 3 sessions already and she would invariably spend half of the sessions crying. Each session does not come cheap and cost S$180 per hour. However it seems to be working gradually as she could at least go to crawling position from sitting position and with some help, she could pull herself to stand.
Socially, I am trying my best to teach her stuff that children at her age are already doing for months. Waving hello and goodbye and saying monosyllabic words. She just started at least to do some waving. Looking foward to hearing her say her first word, hopefully "mama".
Wish we had found out earlier as we will have more time to work around the problem.
With strength from religion and I am really grateful my leaders are ever so supportive, I must overcome this karma of my daughter totally.
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