My Brecken Boy:)

So great news about Brecken!! We took him in to the child development specialist this last Thursday. I did not want to tell anybody a whole lot until we knew what was going on specifically. So we took him in and a speech therapist and physical therapist spent about an hour asking me questions while playing with Brecken. So the entire time we are sitting there and they are trying to get him to do things and he is not doing any of the physical I am almost in tears. I am trying to wait until I get to the car because I am sure that is all they need is a pregnant mom getting all emotional with her son. I could not believe how hard it was to see your son being so far behind and not able to do what he should be doing. Anyways after everything they sat down to talk to me about what they discovered. Good news and bad news.

Bad news. Brecken has low tone. His back muscles are extremely strong and his front muscles have not developed much. This is the part I was almost in tears thinking that it was my fault for not getting on the floor with him as much as I did with Taylor. They assured me that it was not my fault and that some babies are just born with under developed stomach muscles. This made me feel a little better because I actually have this in my legs. I was always going to physical therapy to correct this. Also I knew a lot of what they were saying since i had already dealt with all this. Anyways when they explained what this causes then I realized how right they were because everything they said he might be doing, he was doing at home. He never curls his legs under him because that takes abs and he arches a lot with other things he tries to do. They had also said that the muscles in his face are very loose which in turn affects his speech and is why he can only say da da. Again, once explained I saw what they were talking about. So with all this we will be seeing a physical therapist once a week and a speech therapist once a week at the hospital. They have me on a waiting list to have them come to the house to do the therapy since I am pregnant and have the 2 kids which I thought was awesome!!

Good news!! Brecken is very advanced for his age mentally. They were actually shocked on how advanced he was!! Which in turn proves there is nothing mentally wrong!! He figured out all the problems they put in front of him and they said the way he figured out ways around his low tone was very impressive. He figured out how to do things without his stomach muscles and they said normally kids will just give up but he was figuring out other ways to do what he wanted. This made me very happy. I was relieved that this is a fixable problem. They did say it may take a year or so of therapy but I told them that we would do whatever we had to with him. I would haul all 3 of them in once a week for him to get what he needed. God bless the Army for making it possible for us to get him the help he needs on our insurance too! These are the times where you realize what your husband is doing not only benefits the country but his family too.

On to baby news. I still have bleeding but the baby is moving and I feel it so I know that baby is still doing great!! I am 13 weeks now and the nausea has subsided pretty much. I still do not have a lot of energy but I do what I can do. My mom is still here helping so that has been nice. I am very excited to have started to feel baby because to me this is the best part. Anywas more updates as they come and praise God for the blessings He has given us!!