Willow
10-15-2006, 06:46 AM
My youngest son is in our local Help Me Grow program. We were referred by the WIC office when our second child was old enough for a front facing car seat. So Help Me Grow has been a program we have participated in for the last 4 years. They kids "graduate" from Help Me Grow when they are 3 and ready to start pre-school.
Basically they come out once a month and give great tips and snack ideas to SAHM's and they do a craft with the kids and when they are newborns they do a home check at once week to make sure the baby is gaining weight and not jaundice. I think it is a nice program.
Well our youngest son has some developmental delays. At one year he was only at the level of a six month old and wasn't even sitting up. We started physical and occupational therapy and HMG started coming once every two weeks to help continue the therapy here at home. We all work with him on physical skills and occupational and speech. He is now almost caught up to where he should be. He is 17 months old and does everything except walk, which will come soon because he is pulling himself up and walking around furniture and he walks if we hold his hands. And he is starting to balance himself well.
Anyway, I started a new job and I work Mon-Fri 8am-4pm and I am not available for the HMG program anymore. So Friday I came home and my husband says, "I called ***** from Help Me Grow and I scheduled for her to come out on *****" I was a little suprised. I told him I have to work that day. His reply was, "It's ok, I am a SAHD now, and I told ***** that I will continue the visits now since you can't." I was totally shocked!! Any other time when HMG would come out my husband would take off outside and wander our 8 acres until our home visit was over. Then he would come back to the house and ask me how it went. NOW he has taken the initiative to complete the program with our youngest son!
Ok, sorry the post got lengthy here, but I just wonder now, have your husbands ever done anything that caught you by surprise? Something POSITIVE that he wouldn't have done under normal circumstances?
Basically they come out once a month and give great tips and snack ideas to SAHM's and they do a craft with the kids and when they are newborns they do a home check at once week to make sure the baby is gaining weight and not jaundice. I think it is a nice program.
Well our youngest son has some developmental delays. At one year he was only at the level of a six month old and wasn't even sitting up. We started physical and occupational therapy and HMG started coming once every two weeks to help continue the therapy here at home. We all work with him on physical skills and occupational and speech. He is now almost caught up to where he should be. He is 17 months old and does everything except walk, which will come soon because he is pulling himself up and walking around furniture and he walks if we hold his hands. And he is starting to balance himself well.
Anyway, I started a new job and I work Mon-Fri 8am-4pm and I am not available for the HMG program anymore. So Friday I came home and my husband says, "I called ***** from Help Me Grow and I scheduled for her to come out on *****" I was a little suprised. I told him I have to work that day. His reply was, "It's ok, I am a SAHD now, and I told ***** that I will continue the visits now since you can't." I was totally shocked!! Any other time when HMG would come out my husband would take off outside and wander our 8 acres until our home visit was over. Then he would come back to the house and ask me how it went. NOW he has taken the initiative to complete the program with our youngest son!
Ok, sorry the post got lengthy here, but I just wonder now, have your husbands ever done anything that caught you by surprise? Something POSITIVE that he wouldn't have done under normal circumstances?