"24"

Recorded Sounds from LJ_February 18, 2009 (after 24 HBOT treatments) from Jenn S on Vimeo.

Today marks Noodle's 24th HBOT treatment-and his mind is clearly learning a lot of new things.  16 remaining sessions and then our dive will be completed! LJ is a lot more comfortable with the chamber now.  We've also gotten used to a routine and every little bit helps.  If LJ hasn't slept well or is too full (or has a huge blowout as was the case yesterday!) the session doesn't go well.  Once those two elements are eliminated, he seems to be much more comfortable and even rocks a fantastic smile and babbles to us under his hood.  Improvements of note have been much improved strength bearing his weight on his forearms. This has meant that has been doing the army-crawl all over the living room. Perhaps we are on the verge of crawling here, who knows? I think if it does happen I will perhaps fall over the edge of sanity!

Noodles is also benefiting from more relaxed hands.  He has gotten a lot better at isolating his pointer fingers in order to experiment with different sensory mediums.  And he is practicing using his weaker side~right side~a lot more too (below picture of him playing) I wish I could report that we've seen dramatic results on the eating-front, but unfortunately that's just not the case (we'll hopefully be reporting more on the Feeding Clinic front later this week). On the upside, he does seem to be quite "chatty" still so that's a positive. Now if we could just get him to master saying Mama and Dada :)