5 Months Old

Tyler is 5 months today! Time in one sense has flown by and in another I can't believe he already 5 months.

We've had another full week of appointments last week. We saw his development Dr, neonatalogy, and audiology on Thursday. All went really well. We spent about an hour with development having him sit up, lift his head, turn his head, move his eyes in all directions. She did ask if there were any learning disabilities in the family and Ben and I just looked at each other and giggled. We told her Ben is visually dyslexic and ADD while I'm most likely audio dyslexic. Her respond was "you didn't give this child a chance did you!" Over all she was pleased with his development. So far he is hitting all the mile markers for a 2 month old baby, which he would be if he didn't come early. She did notice his neck being a little floppy and not holding his head up quite as nicely as she'd like, but isn't too concerned about it yet. An hour after she said this to us, Tyler held his head high for the neonatologist. Once again we are reminded everything is done on his terms.

It was a whirlwind visit with neonatal. The biggest thing is all the oxygen tanks and monitors are going back. We haven't used oxygen since the first week of August and we got fed up with the monitor alarming because Tyler figured out how to get the sensor off. Since August his oxygen saturation is between 97 and 100% so it's time to get rid of it. If he needs it again at this point he needs to be in the hospital because something is seriously wrong. One less thing to trip over in our house.

Our last appointment was with audiology to recheck his hearing. In the ICN his left ear referred meaning it needed to be tested again. So after an hour of quietly sitting in the dark rocking him, changing out the normal EEG pad for super sticky ones that need adhesive release to get them off, and holding the ear phone in his ear Tyler fell asleep for the test. Both ears can hear all the pitches and volumes. There is nothing wrong with his hearing. The ear drums react the right way and there is the right echo in the middle ear. We don't need a hearing specialist!!! We don't have to go back to audiology unless we think something is wrong down the line.

Early Intervention also came back out and was finally able to play with him. So far it's been a whole bunch of paperwork for the state. He was in a good mood for her and showed the therapist that he can do all the 2 month old milestones and is well on the way to mastering some of the 3 to 5 month milestones.

Over all things are going quite well and I'm hoping to see a slow down in the amount of Dr trips especially over the holidays. It will be nice to slow down some. We've been enjoying a lot of smiles, giggles, and cooing from Tyler the last couple of weeks. He is a very happy little baby despite always seeing a doctor. He keeps amazing us. (His sister is just as amazing to put up with all this.)