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A month in the life of Harry Tobias

Harry's play currently involves a great interest in bags of any kind, filling them with treasures and carrying them on his arm. He has also developed a new game with his stacking beakers. He tries very hard to sit on them, turning round to see exactly where they are before lowering himself carefully on to them. He has a success rate of about 50 per cent, and is very pleased when he manages it. He spends longer positioning himself than he ever does staying there! Harry has been copying his older sister's actions, playing 'Row, row the boat' with a teddy. He dances with his arms out too, turning round and round, often asking for music to be played.

Harry has been copying his older sister's actions, playing 'Row, row the boat' with a teddy. He dances with his arms out too, turning round and round, often asking for music to be played.

Harry had his inguinal hernia (in the groin) operated on this month. As his operation was early in the day, he was woken by his parents at midnight and offered some cereals, to try to avoid any distress due to hunger in the morning. Harry ate two bowls and then asked for toast!

Although the surgeon asked Harry's parents to attempt to keep him calm and inactive for a day or two after his operation, Harry tried to climb out of the hospital cot as soon as he came round from the anaesthetic. Once home he continued to climb on and over furniture as though nothing had happened.

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