DD has hypermobility, her worst joints being her hips and her knees, when she hadn't rolled by 11 1/2 months I raised a query at the prem playgroup we were attending and the OT did a quick assessment as she was fighting every movement, she had been sitting at this stage but very upright and wouldn't move out of her comfort zone at all.
We had a referral to the physio team and she was fully assessed there.
She was diagnosed with hypermobility and some tone issues, from there we started a very intesive physio session every week and daily sessions morning and night at home and if we were home during play during the day.
The binding of the legs together isn't the best way of saying how to help, what we used for a short amount of time was used a tuby grip (elastic tube), it went from above her waist down to her ankles and she looked like a mermaid
What this did was provide support for her hips, and then what we would do is spend time playing in kneeling, side kneeling, and crawling positions, this enable her to feel what it was like to be in these positions with support.
But this was just one of many many different excersies we worked on.
I highly recommend continuing with physio, especially if you can get a referral to a good paediatric team of physios, I cannot speak highly enough of the physio team we were with, DD's delays were huge, if you want to read more about her journey and how we worked on her muscles and ligaments there is a link to my blog here and if you go to the 18th June 2009 and follow the blog through I have documented what she was doing.
It is great that it has been identified a lot earlier than DD's it means that they delays are significantly less, but I do warn you that your bubba may not like the exercise and it can be hard and there will be moments of tears, but I have to say the rewards were amazing and DD was sooooo much happier when she could move about.
Our dedication to her daily sessions also made a huge improvement in the speed of her "catching up" and she ended up walking by the time she was 19 months
DD is amazing at doing the splits, there are porbably photos on our blog about how she would transition as well. Even now she can put both of her feet behind her head and giggle at us
But now she is able to control them a lot more, we do have to be careful down the track as they will be more susceptible to dislocation but other than that it is all good
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