After countless hours and months of frustration my little man walked.
We have had a long and hard battle with Ronan when it comes to his milestone delays. At 6 months corrected we were told that he needed physiotherapy. This really upset me and i felt the guilt flood back to when he was born prematurely. The guilt of Ronan being born so early took quite a long time to get over so to now be told that our child was physically challenged really took the cake.
To see him roll, crawl, stand up were such proud moments for us even though they were very delayed. I know each parent is shocked, suprised and overjoyed when their full term babies reach a milestone, then you can only imagine the elation a parent of a premature baby must feel.
I am still in a state of disbelief but Ronan walked about 10 steps from the door to me last week. Ronan has been taking little “risks” by walking from lounge to lounge by taking 1 step without support so this is the first time he has ever taken the leap!! Talk about lets get in as many as we can in one go!! He was SO excited that he was giggling.
To come from an ex 27 week premature journey to finally seeing your toddler start making the move towards walking is an overpowering feeling. Hopefully in a few years to come we will be able to turn around and say “what milestone delay”?
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