Last week we left for West Virginia for the family reunion. It was Ella’s first big trip and all of our’s first trip in an RV camper. We rented one for the weekend. Ella was a pretty good traveler. She sat contently in her car seat and only cried when she was hungry at which point we’d stop and I would nurse her. Ella is suddenly touching her face alot. She rubs her eyes and nose with the back of her hands and grabs onto her big ear on the right side and pulls and rubs it.
She still looks off to the right most of the time which is worrisome but maybe to be expected since the right side is controlled by the left side of the brain which is Ella’s good side. She is still not holding her head up completely but she does have good control to turn it from side to side. I went to a “parent support group” yesterday at Early Intervention which turned out to be more of a Mom-baby group. Ella was much younger than all the kids there. Also, her situation seems different. I still don’t know where parents of kids with birth defects get together, if at all.