Michael

Over the past year poor Michael has had so many health issues. I feel that we live at the doctors. I had to change our health insurance to Medical for the kids because Michael's formula was not covered by Ken's work insurance. It took me over 2 months to get worked out and of course Michael got really sick during that time and we ended up at Valley Medical. They were great but everything took forever. We are now back at Kaiser with his regular doctors and I feel some of his stuff is slowly improving. Gross motor skills are fine now. His fine motor still need to improve some and speech is way behind. Michael got tubes in his ears at the end of January and it has improved his hearing so much. But now we are playing catch up with noses and talking. He has started mimicking us and it makes me so happy. He are working on helping him to understand things now. He was really sick in the middle of February and was admitted for croup! i had never been so scared in all my life. He really could not breath.

Every since Michael was born I have questioned I have questioned my mothering skills and ability to be a good mother. I found this article and it helped me a little to know all kids are different.  http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/some-babies-are-just-easier-than-others/?smid=fb-share&_r=0
I am slowly working through this but still sometimes think that I am failing as his mother. His temper is amazingly strong and his patients is extremely short. But his smile is always there! He never stops smiling even if he is screaming. I am know that this is just a short time compared to the long life he has ahead of him but I want to give him and Kaylee the best start possible. I have also found a wonderful Mothers group in Campbell called Adjusting to Motherhood it is a great group of support:
http://www.meetup.com/Adjusting-to-Motherhood-Support-Group/