Comments on: There IS A Wrong Way To Use A Thumb

By: | The Spohrs Are Multiplying… | » Maddie The Medical Marvel

| The Spohrs Are Multiplying… | » Maddie The Medical Marvel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:43:15 +0000

[...] other medical news, Maddie had another follow-up with the NICU clinic (she’ll have these follow-ups until she’s about three). I [...]

By: Dear Santa | The Spohrs Are Multiplying

Dear Santa | The Spohrs Are Multiplying — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:51:26 +0000

[...] asked me to write you this letter on account that she isn’t good at typing because of her effed up thumbs – and, between you and me, she’s crap at spelling. Anyway, she has a lot of things [...]

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cheerleading stuff — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:40:19 +0000

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By: She Can Hold Her Own | The Spohrs Are Multiplying

She Can Hold Her Own | The Spohrs Are Multiplying — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:11:51 +0000

[...] has gotten a lot better at holding her own bottle. Even with her allegedly messed-up thumbs! Way to overcome adversity, Maddie! See, check it [...]

By: Surfer Jay

Surfer Jay — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:54:32 +0000

Yes, you just may be that lady…

I gotta tell ya, my three month old boy still makes a fist with his thumb under his fingers. I tell him, I say ‘Son you can’t suck on a fist, but you can suck that thumb if you just take it out of there.’ But he doesn’t care. Just goes on sucking his fist.

I know you’ve had other issues, but these doctors are freeken wack jobs.

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By: Sleep Deprivation Ninja

Sleep Deprivation Ninja — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:03:36 +0000

OMG! what did they do a thousand years ago without thumb loops?! Oh, that’s right, half the population grew up with crooked thumbs… it’s amazing the human race survived long enough to invent such a wonderful device…

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By: pgoodness

pgoodness — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:42:33 +0000

(LOL @ Danes!)

Thumb loop? Seriously? Can she pick stuff up? Seems like they would need more than one evaluation of your perfect little one to say she needs to wear some crazy thumb loop thingamajob!! I say take the extra help, but watch her picking stuff up – if it looks wrong to you, go with the loops, otherwise, give her a little time and check that part out again!! (Just my opinion! I have no knowledge of any of this stuff you are dealing with, only mama instinct, which apparently works via internet on other people’s kids. hehe)

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By: Danes

Danes — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:45:44 +0000

Too bad Maddie didn’t show them a different finger! She’s a cute little chicken love muffin, and she’ll probably do something brilliant one day and outearn all those ‘specialists’ – and buy her supportive parents a huge mansion.

By: nanette

nanette — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:29:13 +0000

Well, how else with Maddie learn to hitchhike if she doesn't have the thumb loops? nanettes last blog post..Belated weekend recap

By: laurie feldman

laurie feldman — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:09:24 +0000

After my Isabelle was in the NICU for hyperbiliru anemia, full blood transfusion, follow ups;etc- I had to take her for follow developmental checkups. At six months old, they told me her upper body strength was not sufficient. They wanted to send OTs to my house to help her gain strength.

At this point, I was already a mom to three other children, and you know what sometimes as a mom, I felt I just knew better. The reason her upper body strength was lacking was because I held her 24/7. She was a sick newborn and I wasn’t about to let her out of my sight. I told them there would no therapy. I’m sure they thought I was nuts. IT’s free, they said. It’s not about the money, I said. I thought they were crazy.

Today Isabelle is a precocious five year old who never ever stops talking and who can hold her own against her older brothers. She scored her first soccer goal on Mother’s Day. Her upper body strength is fine. Sometimes, I think these health people are ridiculous.

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