Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Uh oh! and speech update

We are thinking this may be Eden's first word - she has said it a couple of times unprompted when dropping something.  She says it a lot more often than that too.  Here's my favorite video of her whispering "uh oh" when Mama asks her to.




Eden's other first word is "dada" - though she says this a lot when she's NOT referring to Michael, I have noticed a couple of times where she definitely seemed to be calling him!  In theory she has said "ma" a couple of times too but not consistently.  She's starting to make some other sounds as you can see in this video, but still mostly sticks to da.  She doesn't really make any velar sounds (k, g) at all, even though she had started to before her speech regression at 7 months.

We suspect that her ear fluid is affecting her speech development somewhat.  She has had a couple of audiology appointments due to her speech regression at around 7 months, and everything is consistent with her having chronic fluid in her ears that causes a slight impact on hearing.  She's only had one ear infection but the fluid seems to be sticking around.  Michael apparently had tubes as a child, and my brother almost did - so we wouldn't be surprised if we had to go that route.  We are making an appointment with an ENT... will keep everyone posted!

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  1. I. LOVE this on sooo many levels! Eden, you ROCK! Your grace and composure are amazing! Grammy loves you so much!

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