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I haven't blogged in a while. I've been dealing with Nate and Andrew who have both had ear infections and tonsilities and Andrew had pink eye. And now tonight Madelyn has started pulling her ears and sticking her fingers in there. All have snot.....GROSS!

Madelyn had a visit again last Friday with CDSA. The OT used a NUK brush and swabbed it in yogurt and rolled it into crumbled up crackers. For the first time she was eating pieces of crackers without gagging. She didn't gag on any of those bites. She's eating her baby food much better now. She still hasn't advanced into more textured food nor will she pick up food and put it to her mouth. She will pick up food but she throws it on the floor.

The OT (occupation therapist) also worked with her pulling up. She wanted her to go from a sitting position with her feet on the floor and push up with her feet to make her stand. She also had her trying to stand up against the table holding her from behind to keep her balance. Madelyn does not like this. She gets mad and cries really loud.

Madelyn has the tendency to keep her feet curled inward and her toes crunched in. The OT said this is from laying so long and never having stimulation to bear weight on her feet for so long. Madelyn has a hard time keeping shoes on due to this and the fact she pulls them off herself. Fortunlatey it's summer time so shoes don't always have to be on plus we're always home anyway. How many moms you know go out with three one-year olds by themself? It's not easy. It's just safer to stay home.

Our homework was to let her crawl to me and let her pull up on her own to me. We also need to let her try standing up against something supporting her from behind. Our other homework is to work on the feeding brush. I still haven't been to a pharmacy to buy that yet. Tomorrow we have a different worker coming out to observe and I'm not sure what else.