Developmental Preemie Clinic

Yesterday Jack had his appointment with the developmental preemie clinic. The audiologist checked his hearing, which was fine. Dr. Gus wasn't concerned at all about his slow weight gain. In fact, he didn't even recommend we see the dietician. He was happy with Jack's progress, and again voiced to me how lucky we are to have such a healthy and happy baby born so soon, though he is concerned about Jack's speech and the fact that he's not voicing any consonants. He's also concerned about Jack not being able to sit up on his own yet. The physical therapist, Micah, spent quite a bit of time with him and compared his progress on her charts, which shows he has completely skipped the sitting up milestone and gone directly to the crawling and pulling up milestone. She said when he pulls up, he uses his arms and legs instead of any trunk muscles, and when he sits, he has to prop up on one arm. She showed me some exercises to encourage him to develop those trunk muscles, and Dr. Gus is going to contact our pediatrician about getting Jack referred to speech therapy, physical therapy, and occupational therapy.

In other news....Jack has gained almost a pound in the past two weeks!!! Under the advice of my very knowledgeable and helpful sister-in-law, Kelly, we took some steps in increasing Jack's calorie intake each day and it has worked wonderfully! YAY!