Little Baby, Big Love: Developmental update {goals reached!}

Yesterday we had Birth to Three and we are so proud and happy to say that Gabriella has reached every single 3 month old goal! We are now working towards helping her reach milestones that a 6 month old would be able to do. She is really closing the gap and I am so thankful for all of the things that our PT has taught us. We have a few things that we are working on for our homework over the next two weeks.

The first goal we are working towards is having Gabriella pick up a toy or object and look at it. Right now she can pick up and hold an object and will look at objects but not specifically look at what she is holding. In order to encourage her to do this, we are placing things in her hands and bringing her hands into her line of vision. We are starting with our fingers and then will use her little toy links.

The second thing we are working on is helping her get into position to eventually start crawling. Right now, when she is on her stomach, her legs will go up in the air instead of tucking up under her bottom. To encourage this, when she is on her stomach, we place our hand on her bum and apply light pressure. When we do this, her legs lower to the floor and she starts to bend her knees up. Her head rises and she starts to bring her hands inwards. It is things like this that I love; simple things we can do to help her muscles learn to move.

The third piece of homework we are working on is to continue to strengthen her neck muscles. As we hold her on our laps in a sitting position, we rock her slowly from side to side, pausing to allow her to fight gravity and straighten her head. She is pretty good at this but more practice will get her ready to start sitting up with less support.

She has also outgrown nearly all of her 0-3 month clothes! Mostly due to length but it is wild how many things I pack up daily. I think she actually grows overnight because so many times I will put something on her that I swear she just wore a couple of days earlier only to find that it is too short, tight, etc.

And some cute photos...