My twinkies have grown so fast and time has flown by.
Since Lyla was 3 months old we have had an Occupational Therapist and Speech Therapist come to our home to do therapy. She has really progressed fast. Our nanny Samantha who comes to the house everyday is wonderful. She attends all therapy meetings and has spent many hours working Lyla out on the ball or doing floor exercise. As soon as the three of us (her OT, Samantha and I) decide she is going to learn to do something we all hunker down and work with her for a few extra hours and usually within a matter of weeks or a month she acheives the goal. I am so thankful for the free services and therapies that are offered through Early Intervention.
I have just started supplementing Lyla's diet with Ginko Biloba. It has been touted as some what of a miracle drug for the extraordinary effects it has on the memory and for its ability to increase blood flow in the brain. After all, much of what many top Researchers from Universities across the country are realizing is: If we can help prevent the neurons from dying off in the brain, and at the same time increase blood flow to the region of the brain that is most severely affected in Down Syndrome, the hypocampus, then we could possibly allow for more typical brain development. The studies being done at Stanford Univeristy right now are extremely promising and all point to this hypothesis being correct. Just how to treat the brain, is something that still needs to be completely realized.
