Blog Hop: My son IS the sport!

Wednesday Blog Hop:
With With A Little Moxie

Prompt:What is your take on therapy or Early Intervention from birth to 3 years old? 

Well, as you know Dakota is 6 now, so Early Intervention was a few years ago for us. But I do believe that it was crucial to my sons development.

We were lucky enough to have a program called Early Steps, which is run through All Childrens Hospital. We immediately signed up as soon as Dakota was born. And they sent out a team of therapists right away!! I wondered at first what in the world they were going to work on when my son was less then a month old. But I was a new "Special Needs" mom back then. I had no clue as to the world I was about to enter, of therapies, doctor visits, etc...

All that being said, they worked on a lot. They worked on his strength, his endurance, his feeding and even just played with him and reassured me, it was all going to be fine.

They saw Dakota through learning to roll, crawl, stand and walk. They saw him through bottle feeding, spoon feeding and self feeding. They saw him through learning to brush his teeth, learning to mold with play doh and learning to hold a crayon. Together we discovered allergies, that he is left handed and that he is very very stubborn. We were a team. And Dakota was our sport. We had to learn him, how he plays, his weaknesses and his strengths. We had to learn the best plan of attack to be the best player on the team. And now, well we are still learning from him, as he is an ever changing sport! HAHA

Dakota still gets therapies weekly, but no longer are we in Early Steps. No longer do we have the same therapists even. But we still act as a team. We all want the same for him. To be able to be an independent man.

But right now, I am happy and satisfied in knowing, he still needs his mommy a little bit longer.

A HUGE thank you to those who have helped us along the way!!