Crawling in Boots and Bar

Starbaby has now been in his Boots and Bar for 3.5 weeks (24 days, if we're being exact) and is doing wonderfully. He doesn't bat an eyelid at them, and is now very used to them going back on after his hour off, so is getting slightly better at lying still (as long as he's got something to hold) which makes getting them on a lot easier. At first, it took so long to get them right that we needed Daddy sitting with him on his lap and entertaining him with bizarre baby youtube videos, but now I can do it on my own and generally get them on before he tries to crawl away.

Speaking of crawling, take look at this!

I'm one proud mama. He's been crawling in his BnBs 'full time' for a week or so now. Amazing for a little chap with low muscle tone, and a very weak left arm (not to mention his feet being fixed together). He first started commando crawling forwards 2 days before getting his Boots on, at about 10 months old. Within a week or so he was doing a few 'proper crawls', then 'collapsing' on his left arm, commando crawling just using the right for a bit, then pushing up for a few more proper crawls. Then sometime in the last week I noticed he was proper crawling all the time. My goodness! He is doing so, so well. We have done physio exercises many times a day, every day since he was a few weeks old, and he's come so far. When he was born his left arm was totally floppy, no movement whatsoever. It's still a fair bit weaker than the right (which isn't 100% itself) and is also shorter than his left... but somehow it manages to share the job of supporting his weight, and... he can crawl!

Into Boots and Bar

2 weeks ago, the day we had been waiting for since starting Starbaby's talipes treatment 9 months earlier finally arrived.

We managed 3.5 weeks in his post-tenotomy cast with no slippage, and on the 29th January we made the move into BnBs. The first day was wobbly, the night wasn't easy (but wasn't anywhere near as bad as I feared) and by late morning the next day he had re-learned how to crawl around already. Particularly impressive, since he had only learnt to crawl without BnBs 3 days earlier! 

Since then, he has totally bowled me over in how well he's done in them. He can get around faster than ever, is sleeping pretty well (bar the 5.30am get-up-for-the-day... but we won't dwell on that) and seems very at ease in them. I was worried that with him being a fair bit older than almost every other baby that goes into BnBs (he's 10.5 months) that he would take much longer to adjust and be much more unhappy, but it has been the opposite. He's taken them so well in his stride.

Who knows what the future will bring, but for now I am so relieved that our first 2 weeks in BnBs have been so much better than I expected.

Here's Starbaby showing that he won't let his BnBs stop him getting somewhere he wants to go!