When our daughter (Annora) was just 13 months old, I was out of town on a work blitz and my husband was holding down the fort with her. When I returned, he explained to me that she had been doing some strange head thrusts and he wasn’t quite sure what it was. I quickly grabbed our baby girl to embrace her. As I was holding her, sure enough she demonstrated the head thrusts my husband had just described. My heart sank! I couldn’t wrap my mind around what was going on and I did what any momma would do, I frantically called the pediatrician’s office. They directed us to go to the hospital where Annora was admitted for further testing. She was poked, proded, tested, retested, etc. and the tests came inconclusive. We were referred to a developmental pediatricianwho got to the bottom of our daughter’s ailments. She quickly realized that Annora suffered from hypotonia (low muscle tone) and that her iron levels were low as well. She referred us to a GI doctor for peds and also gave us the information for an organization called Help Me Grow.
I reached out to everyone we were referred to right away and contacted Help Me Grow (HMG). I was amazed that HMG came out to our house to initially meet with us and get a feel for what Annora was struggling with. They then set up a day for us to get her tested at their facility. Everything went very quickly and before I knew it, they had an action plan in place for Annora, dates where specialists would come out to our house and meet/work with Annora were set, play groups she could and would be a part of were given to us to take advantage of, allocated money to help with services was provided, and a new friendship with our family emerged.
Amazement at the amount of care we received is a good way to describe it. The ease of having someone else take the reigns and lead our daughter (until she was 3) down a path to success was more than helpful and appreciated. She not only hit milestones that we were worried would take years for her to hit, but she was given the best care we could possibly have provided her through the use of HMG. I feel the need to say this…If you have a child who is suffering in ANY way be it socially, emotionally, physically, developmentally, etc., getting help immediately for him/her is the first step. Ask your pediatrician about HMG and if it is a good fit for your child and your family. It helped our family TREMENDOUSLY with the right care for the need our family had with our daughter.
http://www.helpmegrow.ohio.gov/en/aboutus/What-is-Help-Me-Grow
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