Cristina's Baby Blog: 9 months

I stopped keeping track of how old Krew was in weeks, so now I have no idea and we'll just go with 9 months.

This past month has been a real explosion of activity for Krew. I was worried that he was going to be 1 before he started sitting since he refused to sit independently or even roll on a regular basis. And then one day it all clicked into place for him.

It started with his babbling: he was starting to make sounds that could be mistaken for real words! And then he finally said mama. The next week he was choosing to stay upright. Later that week he started doing the Army crawl. He went from nothing to mobile in less than 2 weeks. It was insane! Now he says dad (although it sounds more like "mub") and he chases the cats. Literally. Link needs to stop being such a wimp.

He also went from possibly 4 teeth for Christmas to having 8. I took a few pictures the other day and I couldn't help but notice how much his face has changed.

We were originally going to headband him, since his head shape was twisted and we wanted to correct it. Ideally, you would have the consultation around 5-6 months and so then the headbanding is started when the kid is younger. And if we had done that, we would have gone on with the headbanding. However, when we had our consultation, the doctors noticed that the difference was only 8 mm. This size difference, had it only affected the back, would have been negligible. However, since it altered his ear position (really only visible from the top) and seemed to have affected his cheek, we wanted it fixed. We leared in that visit that there was no guarantee to having those areas fixed. The cheek was a direct result of the torticollis. So once his torticollis was under control and he aged a little more the cheek would normalize. Oh. And his ears? Well, they might go back into their normal position once his head filled out properly. Might. On top of that, Kevin's ears don't line up either.

Once I realized that his fixable areas really weren't that fixable with the helmet, I decided that we would just let nature take its course. His head has changed shape drastically in the past few months, to the point where you might notice that it's different, but not really know why. The doctors also said that kids that show rapid improvement will continue to improve rapidly. Headbanding would just speed up and go beyond what nature would do on its own.

If you check out the pictures below (finally!), you'll see that in a matter of 3 months that he's really grown up!