As a mother of seven children, 3 with special needs, I need a movement lesson to work faster.

People spend their lives trying to acquire money, but nobody knows how to acquire time apart from delegating responsibilities to others to free up one's individual time.

But you can't delegate your child's optimal learning and growth to someone else. There is no one else to whom you can delegate the responsibility of parenthood.

If you are like me, I want my kids to be on track with their development. 

Apart from my first two children, the other 5 have not been on track with their development. 

While trying to be proactive with my most severe special needs child in seeking care for bone health and bone-breaking prevention, I was specifically told by a doctor, "We don't do proactive care; we only do reactive care."

My child's bones literally look like twigs, she doesn't weight-bear at all on her legs, and I am being told that she is not at risk enough for a bone loss and bone-breaking prevention program.

I don't have the kind of time to attend to her extra needs when she has a broken limb or a fractured limb, which has happened since this experience. Events like this make it so I have to start over with basic Movement Structure Functioning and it's frusterating.

Another scenario with one of my kids.

I knew something was seriously wrong with my daughter Margaret.

Because of the Newborn Movement Assessment™ created by Michelle Turner, I knew something was off in my baby's head from the first day of birth. The back of the head had a strangely focused heavy spot.

I actually noticed a lot of things that were off on Margaret:

• She had a severe tic in one leg
• She was scissoring her legs
• I couldn't lay her down without waking her up (until I worked on her absolute horizon)
• She wasn't going into rolling over, and I had done countless hours of Movement Lesson™ (ML™) on her. I knew the moment I finally put the milestone into her system using the Movement Lesson Touch. Usually, I don't have such dramatic ML™ experiences with my kids being able to identify the exact moment a milestone that wasn't in the system, is now in the system.

• Michelle had worked on her like she had my son. Unlike my son, who is thriving after getting a few movement glitches resolved, Margaret's glitches were not resolving.
• My NUMBER ONE complaint from birth was how much she cried. It was high-pitched and would go on for hours.
• Her hips looked weird. I couldn't convince my doctor to do a hip x-ray, so I got one from the Chiropractor. While to him, the hips looked "fine," I saw bigger issues at hand. (incomplete sit bones), no wonder she wasn't sitting. She also had an asymmetrical hip structure. One was turned inward) 
• The army crawling was awful and one-sided. She would only use one arm to pull herself anywhere, and one leg would go stick straight. 
• She wasn't talking. ALL of my kids have been talkers. Margaret barely babbled.  

• She made jerky movements.
• She rolled her ankles and wrists (which I was able to resolve with movement lessons)
• She was choking on her food
• The heaviness in her head was spreading
• She wasn't holding the movement lessons - WHY?! - Super frustrating!!

• I was working so hard with her doing Movement Lesson and the development was SO POOR!
  • What a completely opposite experience I had with my son. He is a Movement Lesson Super Baby! He is going to be great at anything he wants to pursue as he gets older. His number one compliment from the pediatrician is how well he talked at 2 in complete and full sentences. Again, that was because of Movement Lesson™. His little life did not start out well either. He was stiff and shook. He wasn't on track with his milestones. So much so that I made the doctors retest him for Spinal Muscular Atrophy just to be sure he didn't have it. I never found out what was wrong with him, but Movement Lesson caught him up and made him surpass where he should be at now in development. 
• Then Margaret started to regress
• Her eating was poor and started getting worse

At this point, I was beyond frustrated and downright sick with worry for my daughter's development, and my doctor was not listening to me.

Humoring me, my doctor finally sent me a referral for a developmental delay evaluation (It had an 8-12 month waiting list).

At every doctor's visit, I was sharing my concerns about Margaret, and she, my doctor, asked me a little exasperated, "What is Margaret doing right?"

I responded, "She is doing everything the CDC says and is on track for development according to them, but I had to work hard for even their poor scale of development. I am spending hours teaching Margaret how to move, and it's really hard for her! Something is not right!"

"You should have been here sooner!"

Long story short, my daughter ended up having severe clinical seizures that paralyzed the left side of her body.

Come to find out that she had been having sub-clinical seizures, which are seizures without any external evidence of them, for an unknown amount of time.  

While sitting in the children's hospital and explaining to the head doctor all that had been going on since Margaret's birth, He said to me, "Why weren't you here sooner? Your daughter is 'failure to thrive.' She needs help. You should have been here sooner!"

At this point what am I supposed to do?!

One doctor is saying these are obvious signs of developmental delay and possibly more, and another doctor is not acting worried with all the worry I have been expressing.

Concerned, yes, but not making me feel like my worries are valid. In fact, I was feeling a little stupid and had the impression from her that I was worrying too much. 

Sitting in the hospital with a 3-week-old and my 13-month-old, the only thing I could do was movement lessons.

I wasn't going to sit around and see what Margaret would recover post-seizure. I was going to create it. 

Considering the trauma of the seizure, we were only in the hospital for 1.5-2 weeks.  I thank Movement Lesson for that. Doctors are always astounded with how short my hospital stays are. 

Margaret had regressed to an infant not much better than my three-week-old.

Even though I didn't have my laser with me, one of the first things I worked on while in the hospital was Margaret's sutures. These exercises are found in the Movement Lesson™ Laser Series. She was hooked up to an EEG while I worked on her and her brain stabilized after I went through the exercises that are in that course. We stopped having subclinical seizures.

Seeing Margaret in such a regressed state, when we got home I pulled out my laser and started doing Movement Lesson. 

I do lots of Movement Lesson without a laser, but when I really need to have an effective and impactful experience, I pull out the laser, why, because it's like doing 10 hours of Movement Lesson in one hour. 

I watched Margaret regain function quickly, considering the completely disabled body. 

I went to Arizona and did an Intensive with Michelle. Margaret regained a lot of stability. 

In 5 minutes Michelle can do more than what I can do in 20 hours of Movement Lesson. That being said, when I use the Movement Lesson Laser in my lessons, it's like Michelle is right there with me, making my movement lessons work faster and be more impactful.

After the intensive, I continued to need Michelle's touch. I kept using the laser with Margaret because it was like I had Michelle's touch at home.

3 months later, we found out that she had an epileptic genetic condition ROHBTB2. 2 months after that, I got a call from the hospital from someone wanting to set up an appointment for developmental delay. They were referencing the referral from my pediatrician from 8 months prior.

8 months was too late for my child to get an appointment to be checked out for developmental delay. Sadly it took an emergency situation to get the medical team set up and the testing done. Thankfully for Movement Lesson, I wasn't sitting around hoping my child's development would be okay. I knew it wasn't and Movement Lesson gave me the tools to be proactive and give Margaret the experiences of development she would have missed out on. Thanks to the ML™ laser I was able to accelerate the process.