Emily was born on 4th april 2007. She was a lazy girl who was in no hurry to enter the world, eventually she was given a helpful yank by a man in a mask with a pair of forceps in his hands. She was a perfect baby, sleeping, eating and very calm. full of laughs and giggles. Now we realise that the signs were already there. We were ignorant to retts in those days....how I wish I could say the same now.
She had a few words at a very early age but never really played with her toys the way we would have expected. Toys were carried around, usually in her mouth when she was crawling, or thrown around. she took a while to learn to crawl but when she did she soon became an expert. She had so many different ways of crawling. She could go forwards, backwards, sidewards, like a commando on her elbows, like a frog hoping, fast, slow, and round and round and round and round. Another sign!
She was again late in walking, had no need to I suppose what with so many different and inventive ways of getting around. At first we put the sleightly awkward gait down to being a new skill but it never really changed. She had, and still does have this funny little bum wiggle when she runs around, sometimes a bit stiff, sometimes a bit clumsy, tripping over thin air or bouncing off walls.
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