Chiropractor

Michael has started crawling!  It has been amazing!  It took forever but we are excited!  Last week we found out why it took so long. 

Our home teachers came over and we found out one of them is a chiropractor.  He asked about Michael and he took a look at him.  It turns out his sacroiliac joint was out.  He put it back into place for us. 

The chiropractor said that some babies start crawling the same day they have something that big put back into place, but he didn't.  However, he started making progress.  He was getting up on his knees every chance he could, he started pulling up more, and he somehow became even more active than before.  Fast forward to 3 days ago and he started crawling. 

Now it may seem a little crazy that he really had something out.  I was skeptical at first.  How could Michael have his leg out and we not notice?  He didn't seem to be in pain.  He wasn't favoring one leg over the other.  His doctor didn't say anything was wrong.  He just wasn't crawling. 

In retrospect I assume it's been out sometime between when he was 4-8 months.  At 4 months he was rolling around and considered to be ahead of other babies.  He should have sat up on his own around 6 months, but it didn't happen until he was 8 months. 

I learned a valuable lesson.  When you think something is wrong, it probably is.  My quick developing baby got so far behind for "no reason". 

I've been converted to believe that chiropractors can do a lot of what they promise.  When Josh officially gets his job and real insurance we are both going to the chiropractor (if you've ever heard Josh pop some of the things on his body you would send him to one).  I'm still a little wary about whether they can cure things like ADHD, but I guess I'll find out if I ever cross that bridge.