*** news from therapeesia *** news from therapeesia *** news from therapeesia ***

we interrupt the running program again for urgent news from the far-far-away land therapeesia, where mommy went with the boys - which feels ages ago and 14 timezones away - to accelerate progress with nutricion of the dragon...

weeeeellllll: as already said months ago, there can hardly be a better place to study eating than maulbronn. but what startet as a play on words and a nice story about monks and wine, is transitioning into sustainable commending by now: mommy is giving excellent reviews over the phone and is very happy about how competent and sensitive, coordinated and comprehensive the dragon is being taken care of in the clinic. and most importantly: after only one week success starts to make itself visible!
collin has not puked a single time since he took up residence there, even starts to stuff soup, mushed veggies and other non-strictly-liquid delicacies into his little mouth, pulls himself up on the bars of his bed so vehemently by now that even his therapist said to place toys far up to keep him training and intensifying. when i visited last weekend, i saw with my own eyes how well he is coping on the clinic's own bobby car (despite not reaching the ground with his feet, yet!) and we even played with lego! what more do i want? looks like the knot is about to bust for our youngest! watch out, in a year-and-a-half's time noone is gonna speak about preemies and lagging development anymore! :)
benny displays a slightly different image... despite not exactly having collin's underweight handicap, it is still very annoying to see the puking is still an issue for him... still looks like a motorical problem... motion and muscle control. but before despair can outrank hope, mommy just reported the following: while sleeping his coordination is a lot better than awake. apparently the big brother has a concentration or stress problem, because in his sleep yesterday he held his bottle quite properly and everything looked very coordinated and relaxed. which inspires quite a bit of new hope that he could reach the goal just by taking a different approach. if things work in his sleep, all he's gotta do is transfer this into the waking realm... and our trust in the medical guides he's got is unimpaired!
go, benny! :)