Back to it!

Finally things have settled down enough for me to get back to writing this blog. We welcomed a 3rd little girl at the end of August and I became a stay at home mom! It was a struggle for awhile because my little bug is definitely a high needs baby. My older girls were so laid back, I hardly know what to do with this little one! I think I'm finally getting a grip on the situation and she is only 4 months old! Ha! Christmas is over and now I can try to focus on working with Churro on preschool stuff. I also will be spending a lot of time working with Pitters on her speech and social development. We finally got a developmental eval done for her and unfortunately things were a bit worse than I even thought.

She was 17 months and these were her scores:

Physical- 14 months

Adaptive- 12 months

Social emotional- 8 months (50% delay)

Cognitive- 9 months (44% delay)

Communication- 5 months (69% delay)

We are now working with family outreach and have started speech therapy. We are at the top of the waiting list for occupational therapy but since the entire OT department at the hospital is either pregnant or on maternity leave except for one therapist, I'm not sure how long the wait will be. I can only hope that we will start soon cause the speech therapist thinks OT will really help her. We also plan to get an autism evaluation shortly after she turns 18 months which is actually really soon. Wow. I rambled a bit