This arvo has been a little tougher, Bailey has a new cry which is this heartbreaking little frustrating/sad one which is obviously his way of protesting when he cant move the way he wants too. We went and bought a few new pants for him, I tried all his pants on and he only has one pair of warm pants that fit and about 3 pairs of shorts, all the rest have been packed up with his 'grown out of clothes' but sadly he hasn't worn most of them yet, never mind. They need to have a really stretchy waist (eg over 36cms) for me to get them around his brace - so he has gone from 000 pants to 0/1 in a day. Anyway this arvo he was really quiet and wouldn't give us any smiles, instead he was giving us this 'look' which was a bit of a 'what have you done to me' glare, Sean got very upset, so I rallied and we got through it. I dismantled his rainforest jumperoo, sat him up propped up with cushions and put the playstation bit of it over his head so he was able to play with all his dials, spinning bits etc and he seemed pretty happy, but he tired very quickly. The brace does help him sit up unassisted, but the pillows helped when he ran out of energy and started to topple over. Gonna find a beanbag, I think it will come in useful. Anyway he went to sleep very quickly tonight, its been a big day for him and he was completely buggered.
Although we can take the brace off for 30 mins a day, the orthotist said to wait until tomorrow night at least (unless he is clearly not used to it yet and then to wait longer until he settles with it), she showed us how to take it off and on and position it properly, its a bit fiddly but in no time we will be throwing him around - I feel like I am delicately handling a newborn again. She said he was the easiest baby she'd fitted, but its probably because of his poor muscle tone etc, he's a pretty floppy kid, but that will help us put the brace on and off. The annoying thing is this harness thing that goes over his shoulders, it gets in the way with nappy changes and it doesn't appear to make that much difference to the positioning of the brace. I mentioned in my last post that it stops the brace from riding up, but it actually stops it from riding down underneath the bum, but I dont think Bailey could move around to make it get down there anyway, but I'm no expert so will do what they say. I dont remember seeing it on Cerys's brace when I looked at your pictures Vic? Ooh and I will post the train pass back, I forgot to return it to you, sorry about that! All in all the day has gone ok, now we just got to get used to the practical side of it all, changing nappies is certainly challenging, but he's getting heaps of tummy time
Anyway, enough about that. I am loving the photo's of our meet up yesterday and I seriously cant wait to do it all over again. I am happy to make an annual trip to Melbourne hehehhee (next time we should do it when the Crows play over there so I can head to the footy as well!!!! )
Amy - did you make it to the airport in time last night?
Bella - hope you and Jemima got home safe
BG - nice work for E doing a tinkle once she was pants free - hahahaha, Bailey did one while he was nappy free during his brace fitting - LOL, he wasn't about to go down without a fight hahahahhaa
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