It might look a little worse than it actually does because of the camera angle being slightly off-centered, but it's a fairly good example of his head tilt. Anyways, when we went to PT today, Nancy (the therapist) said that when he's sitting and looking straight ahead, he has NO head tilt at all!!! He started at a 17 degree head tilt at two months old, and six weeks ago at his last appointment his head tilt when sitting and looking straight ahead was 6 degrees. So Joe and I are really pumped about that. Nancy said that once he started playing and leaning forward that he had a slight head tilt (it's definitely even better than a few weeks ago when that picture was taken above), but she's not too worried about that. She thinks it will correct as he gets better at sitting on his own.
I did mention to her that I was concerned that he wasn't pushing himself up onto straight locked arms yet when he is on his tummy. Nancy replied to this by saying, "well, he's got a LOT of weight to hold up. He doesn't do it because it's too hard!" She said he eventually will but since he's such a big guy, he has a lot of weight to put on those little shoulders to hold himself up. She said not to worry, which is reassuring.
On a side note, Ryder took a TWO HOUR nap this morning. Now some of you might not think that's a big deal, but I do because he has never taken a two hour nap before. Ever. Ryder is a 3 nap a day kinda guy, with one long nap about 1.5 hours and the other two naps are somewhere between 30-50 minutes. Today he had two naps: one 2 hours and the other 1 hour. I hope he likes that better and will cut out the third nap and just take two longer naps. I would LOVE that so much more. I realized how much you can get done in 2 hours!! 2 hours is a loooong time for a mom :)
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