As a parent, when your child reaches milestones it is very exciting. When your child with significant health issues reaches milestones it is beyond exciting. It is relief. It is an answer to prayer. In the last few weeks Graham has made great progress in holding his head up, sitting up, and most recently putting weight on his legs! He is not sitting up unassisted yet, but he will sit supported, in the bumbo, or in the exersaucer without fussing. We are praising the Lord for this progress. For several months Graham made little progress in these areas and the neurosurgeon thought it may be related to the narrowing of his spine at the base of his skull. I don't know if his strides in development will delay surgery on his spine or not... but we are just glad to see him making progress. The neurosurgeon has given us no reason to think that his spine will correct itself and that Graham will avoid surgery... but I can't help but hope and pray that the Lord will just heal him. Even if He doesn't, I thank the Lord for the encouragement we have had recently.
On another positive note... we recently stopped giving Graham his acid reflux medicine and he seems to be doing fine without it. So, for the first time since he was a few weeks old he is not on any prescription medicine!! We still give him a daily probiotic to help with digestion. Praise the Lord for another health milestone!
Here is a video of our little man, bouncing around in the exersaucer.
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