Shining Star

Shining Star

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Tacen's Walking

Tacen began walking when he was 10 months old. He did NOT want to crawl. He had the toddler toddle for quite a while. We kept thinking he'd grow out of it. A few times he even make progress towards running, but then he'd some to regress without any explanation.  Then we thought it was related to teething. He seemed to struggle and walk less when he was getting molars and eye teeth.  However, he had a really bad period of walking in March of this year and he wasn't teething. 
When we were in Utah in June we went to see Cade's cousin Bryan who is a podiatrist. He looked him over and noticed that his hamstrings were tight. He gave Cade some stretches to do and recommended that we see a Pediatric Orthopedic Doctor. Cade started doing the stretches and we saw some improvement. He was close to running yet again, but still isn't quite there.
We had Tacen's 2 year old appointment July 2 and we got a referral from our pediatrician for a Dr. Beaty at Campbell's Clinic. We called and made an appointment. The earliest they had was July 27th at 9am.  We took Tacen in. He did really well! He let them take his blood pressure while sitting on my lap, he let the doctor check him out and watch him walk and with my help of holding his toes he let them take a lower body x-ray!  Dr. Beaty came back to us to let us know that he checked out fine as far as his bones and alignment are concerned.  We are now in the process of meeting up a neurologist.  We will see where we go from there. Hopefully we can find some answers.
They gave Tacen a little gown to wear and he pretty much hated it. So we took it off, but I wanted to remember how cute he looked in it!