Hannah (My LO!) is 21 months old. Basically she was born with a few problems, blood poisoning, respiratory distress, pneumonia. Then she got meningitis at 6 weeks old after just being at home for 5 days from being discharged from the neonatal unit.
She learned to sit up unaided at 12 months old
Crawled at 13 months old
Said her first word (which was: "What's that") at 15 months old
Walked at 19 months old
Walked outside at 20 months old
Now ... I'm just trying to plan for my new mindee and getting a general idea of what he should be doing, when I decided to detour and do it for my LO too.
I read she should be able to point to body parts, do jigsaws, shape sorters etc.
She cannot name or point any body parts, or jigsaws, or even the basics of shape sorters.
HOWEVER
She will sit for (yes I timed it how sad) 29 minutes in one area picking up different books and turning the pages going "ooooooh".
She doesn't kind of label or name anything I point to her.
I'm not allowed to buy any more toys yet but just looking at some toy libraries this week. As my new mindee is starting tomorrow I'd like to get to know him for about 4 weeks to see what areas of development I can assist him with.
So far what I have planned for my LO to help is head shoulders knees and toes singing, and trying to find other songs with body parts in.
Hopefully get some shape sorters (though I may skip this as she isn't interested at all in these games), anything else I can be doing with her?
She is seeing a peadiatrician (sp) in March so I guess she'll have a bit more of a grasp, btu I'm slightly concerned that she is quite far behind in a number of aspects of development. I appreciate all children are different, but any advice on activities I could do for her would be great.
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