Chuckles on "Anyone's LO go through feeding therapy?"
Long story short - my LO is almost 13 months old and still has a hard time with any solids, even purees. He has low tone and does PT for that and mild gross motor delays. We've been doing both PT and...
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@Chuckles: my LO is 3 months old & goes to therapy for feeding. I'm at a completely different stage, but wanted to say hi! We went today and the exercises we have been doing at home seem to be...
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@jhd: thanks for saying hi! It's great that you are getting help so early. What kinds of exercises are you doing? Our therapist gave us a chew tube for LO to chew and maybe try to desensitize his gag...
View ArticleKemma on "Anyone's LO go through feeding therapy?"
@Chuckles: do you eat your meals together as a family at all? Sometimes LO's get so distracted with the social nature of family meals they forget not to eat :-) and fwiw my LO was probably fifteen...
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@Chuckles: I can't find a link online but we are working to get his tongue moving like it should. One thing is a pacifier rock. Basically stroking his tongue with the paci (or sometimes a clean...
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@Chuckles: I hope the new person is able to help and that you are able to get more out of your sessions together. It's a lot of effort to get to all of those appointments so I understand you want to...
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We had very mild feeding issues, but we started with all of the meltable foods like mums. That helped LO get used to the idea of chewing and then swallowing. He never loved purées and still doesn't...
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Sorry for the delayed response! @Kemma: It's good to hear that it can take some kids awhile to eat a larger amount of food. We are supposed to eat with him to model eating, but one thing that is...
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@Beaker: Thought you may have some experience here
View ArticleMrs Green Grass on "Anyone's LO go through feeding therapy?"
@Chuckles: I bought pouches and he would eat a few squeezes at a time. A couple times he ate most of the packet, but he liked chewing better.
View ArticleMrs. Tiger on "Anyone's LO go through feeding therapy?"
@Ms.Badger: Sorry just seeing this! @Chuckles: My DS2 had a brain injury at birth which resulted in him relying on a feeding tube since he aspirated liquids and purees. When he was 8 months he passed a...
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@beaker: sorry i walled you before i saw this post, so i was missing some info. It's great that your guy is doing purees now! I'm sure it's so hard to go from a feeding tube to eating by mouth. did you...
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We wonders for a long time if LO ever really felt hungry and eventually it just clicked. Now we only give milk at wake up and bedtime, but I think reducing to three or four times a day makes sense. We...
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@Chuckles: so, DS2's deal is that his brain had trouble knowing to swallow fast enough, and liquid moves faster than purees, so he isn't allowed liquids yet until he passes a swallow study with them. A...
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@Mrs Green Grass: Did you wait until he was eating a certain volume of solids before reducing milk or did he end up eating more solids after you reduced the milk?@Beaker: We're also working on straw...
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