Hi everyone,
To my fellow Canadians , happy May 24 , and to all the rest, hope your weekend is going great!
As I am sure most of you know , adjusting to life with a child with Cochlear Implants can be a challenge, but really is there a bigger challenge then to try and adjust the baby worn ear hooks!!! Amelia's Mom , Grandma Howe , and my self are going to great lengths to make these more comfortable for her , however this seems to be a bigger task then imagined. If there is any advice you could give us, it would be a greatly appreciated.
Now to Amelia, WOW WOW WOW! These past 8 days have just been the just short of astonishing . We all can not believe how far she has come in such a short time. She already had made great attempts to say "Bu Bye" , also she loves making the Tarzan call when she See's our family cat Quincy. The biggest change so far is watching Amelia enjoy the company of people. You can tell by watching her, that she feels more a part of things. Yes we know the words that are being spoken, she more likely can not really understand, but maybe it's because she wore hearing aids for close to 4 months before she got her implants so she might have a little step up on most youngsters who did not have that opportunity for on reason or another. We are all happier than pigs in you know what! hahaha!
Well that's all for now , but before I go, thank you to everyone who has left comments, and for being kind enough to add Amelia's Journey to there blog roll, Its been very humbling for me , having the chance to make the connection with you.
Till next time,
Keep growing , and keep loving!
Amelia's Dad
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Hi!! I'm so glad to see an update on her! She seems to be doing fine :) I think Drews mom has this little cap thing that goes on their head to keep them from moving around the CI.
She is probably just following the noises of speech at the moment, nothing sounds normal in the beginning but if she is following it that is wonderful! :)
We love watching and hearing about new activations. They take us back in time when our daughter, Allison was activated for the 1st time, it pretty amazing to watch.
We wish you well and look forward to hearing how your daughter is doing.
It is hard in the beginning as you are just getting used to things to try to find ways to keep everything on. It will come...
We find that the Snugfit works really well. We bend it around Drew's ear and turn the bottom part in, so that it is in his ear a little bit. Also, the hat that Abbie is mentioning is a pilot cap from Hanna Andersson. It worked great to keep everything on when Drew was really young rolling around all the time. I would suggest them for the car - otherwise she might enjoy chewing on them, like Drew.
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