Hi everyone!

Hope everyone is doing well. We have moved to VA and have not found
a pediatrician yet (all the ones that have been referred to us by
local people have a waiting list of about 5 months). I was wondering
if anyone had any input about the following situation with our son
Ben. Ben is almost 9 months old (6 months corrected). He was born
at 25 weeks gestation and was just over 2lbs. He spent 64 days at
St. E's.

Ben is doing really well and seems to like the nice weather here in
VA. We have one concern though. He has recently started to shake is
head from side-to-side, especially when he is tired but not
exclusively when he is tired. He also rapidly moves is left arm up
and slams it down a bunch of times. It is always his left arm
although he reaches and grabs objects with both hands. His eyes are
open when he does this head movement. It is almost like he is
shaking his head "no" really fast. If we happen to be holding him
when he does this, he bangs his head hard against our head. It
seems to be getting more frequent every day. At the same time he
has also developed the habit of chewing his tongue or cheek (we
haven't figured out what he is chewing yet). Nate and I have read
all kinds of websites and googled a ton but there is conflicting
information as usual. It sounds like it may be normal infant
development but we wanted to see if anyone else that has experience
with preemies has experienced anything like this. It has us a
little freaked out! Ben doesn't seem bothered by it though. He is
eating fine and sleeping pretty good (no less than usual) although
he did wake up in the middle of the night the other night and
started screaming really loud, when I went to pick him up and
comfort him he seemed like he was still sleeping. I have read that
it could have been a night terror.
Thank god we haven't experience another one of those yet.

Well, sorry this is so long. We appreciate any feedback! Hope
everyone is doing well in Boston and we will see you in Sept (and
maybe at the walk in June).
Thank you,
Angela