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Child with mild cerebral palsy walking progress

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Kshaheen · 07/07/2024 22:24

Hi, I’ve been reading many threads but I haven’t found one that has a lot of information about the progress in walking.
My ds is 2 years 8months he was born premature and was delayed in all his milestones
sat up around 1, commando crawled 12-15 months, crawled on all fours 15 months and he learnt to stand up using support 18 months. After that very slowly around 2 years he started taking some wobbly steps, which didn’t progress further for a while, I started doing more to encourage walking which was difficult and he can walk slowly and carefully across the room and garden too only if I encourage him to, otherwise he chooses not to, he learnt to stand himself up off the floor himself around a month ago but does it in his own odd way he has for months been taking slow steps which is very slowly progressing but my ds still mainly crawls and only walks a little when encouraged he had really good standing balance it’s just he doesn’t walk much unless encouraged and I really want to know how other children in similar circumstances had progressed their walking and how long it took to get better, I just want to see my son walking around and playing with his siblings and cousins as he crawls and falls behind and can’t run around with the rest of the kids, although he plays beautifully with everyone I feel sad for him I love him so much he is so happy and funny. It would ease my heart if someone could tell me how long it took for walking to get better and what I could do to help improve. He does have physio they barely see him but I do leg strengthening physio and work on quads and squatting and core through play
sorry I went on and on :(

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RappersNeedChapstick · 08/07/2024 07:58

He sounds absolutely lovely @Kshaheen. I hope you get some replies from some experienced MNers soon Flowers

Kshaheen · 09/07/2024 09:18

@RappersNeedChapstick thank you he is the sweetest boy ☺️

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Christmas202 · 15/07/2024 09:33

I don’t know where your based but in Northern Ireland is the most specialist service for children like your son. My boy was the exact same. One day he just took off. We had this therapy weekly and it’s been the best thing.

Kshaheen · 15/07/2024 22:10

@Christmas202 hey thank you for your reply, I’ve been doing physio therapy with my son and it slowly seems like he is getting more confident and a steadier however this is is still slow progress he has the standing balance, could you tell me what sort of activities they asked you to do for Physio.

or do you remember the name of the place you went to.

sorry if I’m being invasive my son has been slowly getting better over the last few months, did your son also make slow progress and then get more confident and better at walking

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Kshaheen · 15/07/2024 22:11

@Christmas202 i also wanted to add, I’m really happy for you and your son ❤️❤️❤️

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Christmas202 · 15/07/2024 23:17

So we did spider cage therapy , Hugo was attached with bungy cords and he literally was manually taught to walk . His neuro rehabilitation therapist would literally move his feet for him. One leg in front of the other on the treadmill. We also bought a pony. He’s now got better posture than me and is as strong as the hulk. Hugo’s nearly 12 and hasn’t required physio from age 4.

Kshaheen · 16/07/2024 16:31

@Christmas202 that sounds amazing, It’s so great to hear your sons journey was so positive, I will definitely look into spider cage therapy and is that a real life pony? I have been told horse riding is amazing for core strengthening

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