Maria’s really been getting into supported standing lately. Her biggest problem seems to be balance, and she has trouble making her muscles do what she wants. She requires less support as time goes on, sometimes just a finger to hold on to. She still arches back sometimes, which really throws her off.
Her feet have been in a better position lately. She had been holding them flat for a while after she started her AFOs, but then she was standing on her tip-toes more, which is what the AFOs are supposed to be correcting for. Eventually, we realized that we weren’t tightening them enough so her heels were coming up when she slept, thus reinforcing the bad position. We’ve been putting them on more securely lately, and that seems to have helped.
She got her first potty a few days ago! We know she’s not ready for true potty training yet since she can’t sit up on her own, but we figure it’s a start. She makes her pooping noise so we always have warning so we can zip off her diaper and plop her down, and since she still has constipation problems even with the poop goop we thought it might be a more comfortable position for her.
For anyone who’s interested, I found a recipe for poop goop online. It has helped her, though she still occasionally has problems.
A technical note for other bloggers out there. The blog got hit by the spam monster recently, with over 70 spam comments being posted in a half hour! Luckily, I still had comment moderation set up so I just got spammed with moderation emails but nothing showed up on the blog itself. I installed Akismet and Protect Web Form (a CAPTCHA plugin) which should solve that problem. I’ve had no spam since.