April 14, 2011 Moving Forward

It has been an eventful week. Austin has been noticing all the new sounds. It has been wonderful to see his reactions to sounds. I especially love all of the smiles and laughter that he has been giving, he is such a happy baby. Today we went in and turned up the volume a little bit more and his reaction was the same as last, smiles and more smiles. His Doctor said we have about two more appointments that we will be turning the hearing aids up until it reaches the target point. It is amazing the technology that they have now. Everything is on the computer and they just connect the computer to the hearing aids and click a button and they are ready to go. Amazing. Then when he reaches his target range then they will hook his hearing aids up to a different machine and then they will start adjusting the high, medium, and low pitches to where he needs them to be.
Austin has been doing really well with his hearing aids. There has been a lot of putting them on and taking them off. Every time he falls asleep then we have to take them out. And then we put them back in when he is awake. Needless to say I have become very good at taking them out in one single movement without even waking him up. :) Austin has also figured out how to take them out. He is constantly pulling on them. Whenever we are in the car, no matter how long of a drive it is, the hearing aids will be out by the time we reach our destination. Just yesterday I needed to run to the grocery store. It is only a five minute drive, but he had taken one of the aids out. I didn't check to see if they were in as I was taking his car seat out. So as we were walking to the doors of the store there was a man walking out at the same time. I was holding Ty's hand and holding the baby carrier at the same time. The man called my attention and I turned around and he was handing me Austins hearing aid. I told him THANK YOU!!!! Then I thought to myself, we've only had them for 1 week and I almost lost one already. That would have been $2000 down the drain. Needless to say I check him now every time we get out of the car. We even put on the little string that they came with and it attaches to his shirt (it is like the string that some people attach their glasses to so they can hang them around their neck when they aren't wearing them) while we are driving so they don't fall out somewhere.  :)