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This must be why my kid loved being put in an ottoman.
Parents cope with child with schizophrenia - Los Angeles Times
Jani’s psychiatrist at UCLA, Dr. Karen Lim, has tried several medications. A whopping 300 milligrams of Thorazine manages to stop the psychosis, but it too causes dystonia.Michael worries that the heavy doses of medication might kill his daughter. But without it, she might kill herself. Jani had recently told Michael that the temperature in Calalini had risen to 200 degrees — a sign that her hallucinations are worsening. She also says that 400-the-Cat is being really bossy.
One of the best things about Torito getting older is her awareness to the world around her. I took her to the Long Beach Aquarium last week and it was pretty awesome being able to show her the fish and sea anemones. I put her hand in the water and she made some funny faces. Just as I am able to show her more of the world, she is also freely discovering it as well. She will now look at us and gesture her thoughts to us by handing us books she wants us to flip through, pointing to the tupperware holding the crackers, bringing over the container with cereal, and bringing us various toys in her play area. When we were at the aquarium, she was often times more interested in all the kids and babies in their respective strollers as we walked around. And I could see her eyes taking it all in, processing what everyone was doing.
Just as our kiddo is extremely curious, she is also just a big ham. I feel like she is going to be extroverted, unafraid to share her emotions, and also very stubborn in knowing exactly what she wants. As a parent, I think I’m going to have to embrace that and really learn how to harness that determination and outgoingness. When I see how determined she is to put a ball on the walker and push it across the room, it reminds me that as she gets older, I don’t want to be the one telling her not to do something because it doesn’t make sense. I need to let her learn and try what she thinks is right and guide her when she looks at me to help.
But until then, I can laugh when she makes funny faces.
In 2 weeks, Torito will be 11 months old. I’ve never known 11 months to fly by so quickly. In the recent weeks, she went from sleeping through the night, to waking multiple times without being consolable. Now, though she wakes a few times still, I let her cry it out for a minute or two and she’ll fall back asleep. However, this makes for some odd dreams for yours truly since I’m never fully asleep and never fully awake.
This past weekend, we had a scare where Torito managed to use the bumper and toys in the crib to flip herself over and end up on the floor. How she did it exactly, I don’t know. I was in the bathroom when I heard the thud and crying, running out I saw her on the floor. Needless to say, she ended up in bed with me after that.
Her walking is getting better, the lion walker is her favorite toy and she will try to load it up with whatever toys she can get to stay on it and go back and forth across the room. She’s also a little monkey, climbing in out and around whatever she can get her hands on.
She’s learned how to point, and will often take to holding her hand up with her finger pointed, as if she were saying, i’m #1, or as her mom likes to call it, the ET phone home finger. And as she’s becoming better at expressing herself, we can tell when she’s done eating by the way she starts to throw her food over the side of the high chair. She loves to drink water and will exclaim the goodness with a nice long ahhh after each gulp. And when she’s tired, she’ll crawl into our laps and put her head on our legs. It’s so exciting.
So it took several months, 9 to 10 to be exact, but our little one is finally sleeping through the night. It started one night where she was exhausted and went down at 8 pm, cried fora couple minutes around midnight and the next time I woke up to her cries it was 5 am! I was shocked, she had never slept that long before. I thought it was a fluke. But then it happened again and a couple more nights and now we are on a roll. I’m so proud of her.
While we get more sleep now, it comes at a tradeoff. Since Torito is sleeping more soundly, that means she has that much more energy during the day. Plus she is getting better and better at walking on her two little feet. She can pull herself up and move across the room while holding on to the furniture. And now she can push her little yellow lion walker across the room taking a couple steps at a time. She is becoming more fearless as she climbs over everything and gets more and more confident on her two legs.
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Every week now, Torito is growing, growing bigger, growing up. She has started to stand, and now that she can, there’s no way she’s going back to her previous life of rolling around the floor. The world is new when you can now see 1 and a half feet above the ground. No longer is her world a view of shoes and feet, though she’s always been a fan of feet. Instead she can pull herself up now, and the goals are bigger and better. The top of the couch, climbing out of the crib, pushing open and closing doors. Her favorite right now is joining us in bed and then nosediving off the couch to the floor. If we’re there to catch her, she gets to flip and tumble and she’ll scream with joy. If we’re not there, then she face plants and cries. We’re working on showing her to use her feet to crawl over.
ma ma! Well, to be fair, her first word was Ahhhhh, Ahhh, Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! She’s very good with the letter A. All other vowels are yet to be heard, but the first word with a consanant… dum dum dum… ma ma. Hooray! We are hitting milestone after milestone. She is definitely getting better at standing, and is learning how to fall back on her butt from standing position. She likes taking steps while we hold her up and is super proud when we cheer her on. She is eating finger foods on her own and loves feeding herself. She has learned how to clap and will put her hands together as we sing songs, and when the nanny comes in and leaves, she’ll wave her arms like little airplane propellars to say hello and goodbye. And now, the talking. First there were coos, then there were yells.. Then she learned how to grunt, growl and smack her lips. From there, we got mmmmmm.. and today finally we heard the ma ma ma ma ma… She doesn’t associate it to me yet, but it’s a first step. We’ll be saying it a lot the next couple of days. I guarantee it. Though it’s funny, every time we try to get it on camera, she clams up. Don’t be shy Torito!
We’re almost at 9 months, and this week Torito has discovered that she can pull herself up to standing position. She discovered this and since we’ve moved her to the crib, we have found that she will tend to pull herself up, but can’t seem to let herself fall down. The result? She’s been waking up at 4 am the last couple of nights, first with a little hey you scream to let us know she’s awake. Then after we ignore her for about 15 min, she’ll start the screaming. Oh the screaming. Eventually, we get exhausted and we pick her up and bring her to bed with us. But that’s not the end of it. She’s now adept at crawling and rolling so she’ll roll and crawl everywhere, often to the edge of the bed where we’ll then have to pull her back. Of course she thinks it’s a game, of course she does, so she’ll do it repeatedly with no thought of the impending fall off the bed that will occur. Last night, Daddy gave in to the cries and was the one who brought her to bed with us, of course Daddy was also the one who then proceeded to leave the room to sleep in the living room when she was rolling around the bed. What does that mean? That leaves mommy half asleep holding on to her baby making sure that she doesn’t roll off the bed, even though it’s already happened twice and mommy feels really guilty about it.
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The last few weeks have been full of developments in our Torito, so much so, we can barely keep up with all her discoveries. She has graduated from the rolling everywhere, to now doing her version of an army crawl. Low to the ground using her elbows to get from one place to another. It started slow with an occasional reach that would propel her forward, but now she can go from the sitting position down to belly and then mobile. The times we revel in this is when she sees us across the room and will make her way over to our laps and crawl into them so we can help her stand and she’ll wrap her arms around our neck. How can you not love that?
She’s also on to our sleep plan. We’ve been putting her on the mattress next to our bed, and blocking her exit with a box. But now when she wakes up from a nap or during the night, she’ll get on her belly and look towards the door, hoping that we’ll come in. And while I don’t know if it’s possible, I swear that she will look straight into the baby monitor and give us her most forlorn look. As she’s become more adept at going from sitting to belly, she now can get herself sitting up. This morning I woke to her sitting up and pounding her hands on the box beating a tatoo like a drum.
Hand eye coordination is improving. She is now an expert at eating cheerios, and avacado and banana and apple and whatever else we put in front of her. Her pincer grasp, with her finger and thumb has improved dramatically and now she is working on controlling her arms. When she gets excited now, her arms will wave like little airplane propellers and often she’ll do it when daddy gets home or when we’re saying goodbye to the nanny. We just need her to learn how to open her tightly closed fist now.
And the smile, the best part of any childs repertoire. When your baby smiles at you, you just melt and our little one smile with her whole face. Her eyes will light up, the nose will get a little scrunched and we’ll see the 2 little bottom teeth as she’s waving her arms. To top it off, we’ll occasionally be greeted with little kisses, as she smacks her lips together. And it is at that point that she has us wrapped around her little fingers and we are putty in her hands.
