note from mommy:
Claire and Jocelynn had a NICU follow-up appointment with the Children's Therapy people from Valley Medical. It went very well. They saw a Speech/Feeding Therapist and a Physical Therapist. This is standard for all patients in the NICU to see them, so they just wanted to make sure they were on track because a lot of the times premature babies can be delayed in these areas.
We are happy to report that everything is on track and they are doing exceptionally well. The physical therapist says they are acting more like 6 month olds than 5 month olds, let a lone their 4 month old "adjusted" age!). So that was awesome to hear.
The physical therapist had them each on their backs and presented them with different toys to see if they would grab for it and put it to their mouths. They also saw them each roll over and were impressed that they roll from their back to their front. Claire is very close to sitting up on her own and they told us to practice using the boppy to support her. Jocelynn is not as strong with her balance but not very far behind her sister.
The speech/feeding specialist asked us a lot of questions about the sounds they are making, their reactions to our sounds, and the different types of sounds they should be doing soon. They are right on track with their vocalization and she was very impressed with how social they are, smiling whenever people talk to them. Then she watched them each drink a bottle and made sure they were on track with how fast they should be eating. She suggested Claire should use the next size up nipple to get more faster, so we will try that. Then she spoke about introducing semi solid foods into their diets like rice cereal and strained vegetables. We will probably start rice cereal next month and introduce other things slowly.
So all in all it was a good appointment! We will see them again in 6 months, so when the girls are about 10 months old.
That's it for now!
Arent we just so darn cute when we sleep? All snuggled up together... precious.
