[tri-med] Re: still not smiling???

Irene
Smiles from a baby just melt my heart.  Joey, my 2 year old grandson smiles
with his whole head - from his eyebrows to chin.  Jake, as an infant didn't
smile much.  You had to work really hard to see a "mouth" smile but he
always smiled with his eyes. Jake has low muscle tone & when he started
speech therapy the Therapist commented that the low tone went from trunk to
head/face.  I always thought that was a good explanation for  the smiles.
As he has gotten older you see alot more - I guess because of more muscle
control & social modeling.

Amanda - any other explanation??

Teri
Amanda's Mom
Jake (pT9 & 47XXY) & Joey's MawMaw
www.childersfamily.ney

--- Original Message ----- 
From: "Irene Smith" <irene67@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tri-med@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 9:34 AM
Subject: [tri-med] still not smiling???


>   OK, I have MORE questions for you all!  My Caroline is still not smiling
at 7 months.  Now granted, she has really had a hard time over her 7 months
and has had only very few periods of time of actually feeling OK, but I
thought we'd see some smiles by now!  She did seem to start to smile at
about 5 months, and I had other people agree she was smiling, but she then
started not to feel good again and that was the end of the smiling attempts.
>   She had her Nissen surgery and g-tube last week and I think she is
feeling better now.  I hope we are on the road to better things.
>
>   Anyway, it is hard to have a sick baby who still hasn't been able to
really react with us.  I am just fearful that she will never smile -
although I can't imagine that!
>
>   So my question is has anyone had a REALLY delayed baby in regards to
reacting with other who went on to finally smile and laugh?  She does also
have trouble making eye contact, but does look at us and things such as a
mobile, just not for long periods of time.  That is hard to deal with as
well.
>
>   I just pray that she will finally recover from her many many health
problems and go on to be such a happy baby.  It is really hard dealing with
all the ongoing medical issues.  All I ask is for a baby who will finally
act like she knows and loves us!!!!!  I don't even care anymore about the
physical and mental delays at all!!!
>
>   Irene
>   (Christina - 27 months and Caroline - 7 months with partial trisomy 17p)
>   http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/c/carolinerochelle
>
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