PT Round 2

So we went back to "play" with Ms. Cindy at physical therapy. Daddy got to go with us since he was home for the day and was feeling better. Now...you would think I would have learned by now to schedule things like this when I know Bo is going to be awake and has a full belly. Nope...I decided to choose nap time and meal time! I had tried to get him down for a nap before we went and he just wasn't having it. So as soon as we got there I warned Cindy we could have a nightmare on our hands. I got the "mommy check" again as I handed him off, even Jarrod noticed and pointed out that Bo made sure he knew where I was, I just had to point that out again! Once comfortable with things he did good...for about 15 mintues after that it was all down hill as I had predicted. The good thing is she is a Pediatric PT so she is used to the crying. Now the screaming he was doing I'm not so sure about. This child can hit octaves I never knew existed! In between it all she did point out that he was doing really good with his strength, head control, grabbing, etc. The only thing she had a hard time with was getting him to relax his arms. He keeps them so stiff ALL the time and it's only worse when he's screaming. She did agree that he is a very "intense" child! haha!! I just had to laugh. She said she sees that a lot with babies who have reflux and that it could be the cause. Of course I just smiled and nodded my head thinking, yea I'm sure that's what it is...I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that this is my child!! Jarrod knew to keep his comments to himself!
We tried feeding him a little to tide him over but he HATES it if you take the bottle away once he's started eating so of course we just made it worse. Finally Cindy decided Bo had, had enough fun so she handed him back to me and I immediatly plugged the mouth with a bottle! SILENCE!!!!! Of course we had to leave because our session was over and she had another appointment coming in. I wish you all could have seen us. I ask Jarrod to hold the bottle, still in Bo's mouth and work with me on getting him into the car seat. So I'm picking him up and buckling him in the car seat and at the same time Jarrod is feeding him his bottle, we didn't miss a beat!! All in all he's doing good, she didn't introduce any new exercises other than working with his arms. We go back in a few weeks, and I scheduled the appointment at 9:00am right after his first morning nap and between meals!