tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4663689712360895763.post5482236059658735744..comments2022-10-11T12:40:32.702+01:00Comments on Nearly Everything But The Kitchen Sink: Understandingmousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00573595683899488691noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4663689712360895763.post-70640517299531643542012-07-16T23:15:45.728+01:002012-07-16T23:15:45.728+01:00How funny, I was just thinking what to write here ...How funny, I was just thinking what to write here when your comment popped up on my blog!<br />About the preemie thing.I've thought about this a lot. I think my ideal situation would be that I wouldn't introduce the concept of prematurity to Smidge until she was a lot older. Until she asks really..about when she was born. And I think even then I would like her to look at her early start as an incident in isolation and not the entire reason she has whatever other problems.<br />I have a few reasons for this. 1) I want to protect her from other people preconceptions of prematurity and allow her to go out there and be like any other kid and not be seen as different. 2) The only reason I could think it might be useful to discuss the rough start with her, is that it could be used to explain medical/learning/behavioural issues but who knows both smidge and wriggles may have minimal input at the age of five and we may not need to explain anything. Also - medical/learning/behavioural issues often overlap and interlink, whose to tell what is a result of being prem and what's just her being a little monkey? Kids are far more switched on than we give them credit for and they'll be using that prem card to their advantage before we know it! 3) I'm a firm believer that when it comes to the self, it doesn't really matter where you come from, all that really matters is where you're going.<br />All this is ideals..remember you are talking to a woman who is scared to take her baby to baby group!<br />As for the understanding, from the things I read it sounds to me like wriggles is doing great with her comprehension and well within sound parameters for her corrected age. And that is because of you and all the input and time you give her. *such a great Mummy* <br />xxdiary of a premmy mumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13829424922988781001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4663689712360895763.post-73347975409377337352012-07-15T08:09:05.450+01:002012-07-15T08:09:05.450+01:00Oh its tough isn't it.I admit when gemma first...Oh its tough isn't it.I admit when gemma first got rid of her NG,it was for a couple of weeks test,I was saying if you don't eat more the tube will be back. U am not sure that was right but I so wanted her to do well.not sure it helped but listening to our discussions at gi appointment saying she is doing well and close to NG going seemed to help! They hear and understand more than we credit them with <br /><br />Sounds like her speech and understanding is similar to gemma's at that corrected age.we are getting new words each day now,seems to be 'clicking' now.<br /><br />We have lots of pictures of when she was tiny and just say,gemma was tiny,ill,in hospital etc so as she is older it is always their and she knows how her life started.gemgemmumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05286852601567415428noreply@blogger.com