Hi All,
My name is Jackie. My husband and I have an 8 month old daughter who is Blind. We are from Western Michigan. Both my husband and I have the same eye condition as our daughter ( low vision with some limited sight) so I know that I probably have more experience than a lot of parents who have never dealt with a disability, still, as I am sure you all know, it is much different when you are a parent.
Emilia has 5 therapist and she is getting PT,OT,vision therapy,Orientation and Mobility and also just general early stim. I am very happy with our services, they come to our home and they are endlessly helpful.
I just have a couple of questions for other parents. I really try hard not to allow Emilia's delays to bother me but I must admit that when I see a baby born the same week on facebook who is crawling I feel a little discouraged. Emilia is not even rolling over yet. how do you cope with watching other babies make fast progress? I know I am probably overreacting but it hurts sometimes. I love Emilia so so much and I just want her to have everything in life.
Second, she is sitting up but VERY wabbly and I was thinking about trying to switch her over to a bath chair where she has to sit up to encourage her to keep developing stronger trunk muscles. Obviously we would only do this VERY carefully with constant supervision as i know the bathtub is very dangerous. i was just wondering if any of you have any suggestions for chairs for the bathtub that you have used.
Third, she is a picky eater. Sometimes she won't eat, sometimes we can get six or seven bites of peaches or baby oatmeal down her. She does like to feed herself small things like those cereal puffs for babies but she has a very hard time coordinating the process. Did any of you find any tools of special kinds of food thata were good for development in this area.
Thanks so much for all of your help!
Re: Semi new with some questions