{"id":1011,"date":"2008-10-09T12:11:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2008-10-09T12:11:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T17:11:44","slug":"andrew-mri-follow-up-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/09\/andrew-mri-follow-up-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew MRI Follow Up Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today we had our follow up meeting with the\u00a0neurologist. She reviewed the MRI report, took some measurements of Andrew and did another evaluation. The overall feedback was that he’s totally normal. He does have some extra fluid around the brain (we already knew this) but that should become less over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His head measurement was just a touch higher then she wanted to see, so we scheduled one more appointment with her in December where she’ll do another measurement. Obviously, his head is supposed to get larger, but she wants to be sure it’s not growing at a faster rate then what is normal for his age. So one more follow up is just to be sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Developmentally, he is doing fine. He’s a little behind where Max is, but because of his larger head size and overall larger size it’s very normal for him to be a few weeks behind where Max is. Over time he will catch up and they will be more in sync.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We were also told that using walkers, at all at any age, is not considered a good thing. And in Andrews case, it may slow is progress because it throws off him learning how to balance himself. So as of next week we’re taking the walkers away in trade for more floor time that forces both of them to crawl, stand and eventually walk more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I did do a google search, and there is a lot of information about this out there. Who knew! Here are a couple articles I fond interesting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

iVillage<\/a><\/p>\n

Keep Kids Healthy<\/a><\/p>\n

So overall, he’s doing just fine and we’ll continue to keep an eye on him to be sure.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He does have some extra fluid around the brain (we already knew this) but that should become less over time.\u00a0 His head measurement was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13,87],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-text","tag-andrew","tag-mri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47XZT-gj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":988,"url":"https:\/\/tomchak.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/29\/mri-for-our-little-guy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1011,"position":0},"title":"MRI for Our Little Guy","author":"Thomas Tomchak","date":"September 29, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Andrew had his long scheduled MRI today. 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