(B & Goose on Mommy's birthday San Francisco trip.)When I took Blake to see Doctor Benjamine about his latest eczema outbreak, he noticed that Blake's head was tilted in addition to him never wanting to look to the left. He diagnosed him with a minor case of torticollis. Torticollis is basically the term that describes Blake's inability to turn the other direction, from what I gathered from the doctor, it was a neck muscle thing and that his case wasn't too bad. What I gathered from the internet is that it is pretty common in babies and many different things can cause it but it is very fixable. So, Doctor Benjamine referred us to a physical therapist.
(Baby B & Daddy doing tummy time.)Blake's first physical therapy appointment went really well. Erin, (the PT) showed us some stretches and excercises we have to do with him and told us we are going to have to do tummy time at least 30 minutes a day. She said that he is a little behind since he doesn't roll over and the ability to sit up is very common in babies like Blake who would just rather sit up then roll over! Baby B was a total trooper, as he always is, he didn't make a peep when she was wrenching on his neck, or showing us odd positions to carry him in to help correct his head tilt. He didn't even cry when she had him on his tummy. (If you are wondering why we never really did tummy time with Blake it's because he used to HATE it... He would scream and smother his face into the ground. Even now he only tolerates it and does it for maybe ten minutes at a time.)
(This tummy time stuff is hard business!)It has been two weeks since we have seen Erin. Blake is doing so much better. He has a better range of motion looking to the left and can roll over really well with just a tiny bit of help. Hopefully we can get him caught up and get him to look in all directions! =)
(There's a whole new world to the left!)
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