Coraline feels safe and knows what to expect, so this creates a good setting for her to progress developmentally.
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The idea is that early intervention now will have a positive effect on later development.
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It is interesting that Coraline will expect to get her teeth between age one to two. For babies without Down’s Syndrome teeth begin to arrive from six months old onwards.
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We are loving seeing Coraline really develop at the moment!
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She’s been sleeping through each night beautifully as usual. I’m just beginning to get used to the transition!
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‘Ooh you’ll have to get a Ewan the Sheep,’ said a teacher (with a young baby at home) at a Conference I was attending.
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Coraline’s speech therapist says to mimic the same sounds back to her so she will learn about copying sounds and turn taking
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This book is our nod to I.A.E.S.T.E. (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience). Since 1948 it has arranged over 350,000 traineeships in over 80 countries worldwide.
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Wednesday June 13th was a historic day as Coraline sat up on her own for the first time that I’ve seen her! It’s as though one minute she wasn’t, the next minute she was!
Until now we have put a hard munchable e.g. a carrot stick or a crisp on the tray but she wouldn’t pick it up herself so we would pass it to her. It’s amazing to think she’s made the connection to picking it up now.
Whenever you yawn she smiles back as she thinks you’re laughing.
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One of my favourite times of day with Coraline is early morning after her first feed, sitting together like this. We sit together so I can hold her upright due to her reflux.
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“I love that bonsai tree; it symbolises our life. They’re the same age and they both came back from an initial adversity. They’re the same age and they’re both flourishing”. Says Kevin.
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In the last week of May Coraline and I went to the Children’s Centre and, later in the week, to a baby class for the first time after getting the go ahead from her Cardiologist.
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Coraline loves to blow raspberries, which I have rather taken to too. Her young cousin said recently, “will Coraline be doing her signature raspberry?”
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Everyday when Kev gets home from work he sings to Coraline, from the Eagles, to Lionel Ritchie, to Luther Van Dross, to Gloria Estefan. You name it.
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We have been working on Coraline's gross motor skills with her Physiotherapist which underpin her fine motor skills for eating. We appreciate how hard Coraline works when she is eating, due to her lower muscle tone which is a characteristic of Down’s syndrome.
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Our Portage Service (home visiting educational service) told us about Home-Start who are a voluntary organisation who support parents with young children and have volunteers who come to give home-based support.
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“You might want to keep one day free where you have no healthcare appointments at all,”said the lady who came over for our initial visit from Portage when Coraline was a few months old.
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