Happy birthday Mama!
29 Apr 2011 1 Comment
in Uncategorized Tags: eating, parenting, sensory processing disorder, SPD
Greta had an appointment yesterday which also happened to be my birthday. Perhaps it’s just coincidence, but it was the best appointment ever! 
The past few days she’s been pretty “on” and things have been going fairly well. So, the night before her appointment she asks for an apple. Normally she’ll take some bites and spit them out. I asked her if she could move it to the back of her mouth and swallow it. To my utter shock, she did it! Fast forward to her appointment, which I got to go to because I always take off work for my birthday, and I’m really not expecting her to actually eat the apple for Adrienne. She surprised me though! She ate 1/4 of an apple. Then she put on the headphones and did the listening therapy which she had been very willing to do lately. While she was listening to the music she ate (swallowed and all!) two grapes and at least one carrot stick! How awesome is that?
Of course, lest I get too excited, today I couldn’t even convince her to take a bite of an apple…..tricky little kid…
Bites!
07 Apr 2011 4 Comments
Today’s therapy session resulted in Greta now being willing to take bites of an apple! Woo-hoo! She spits the pieces out as soon as she takes the bite, but just the biting it is major to me. She also put a carrot stick in her mouth, rolled it around between her teeth and even sucked on it a little. She wouldn’t bite the carrot, though. She has been asking for a banana in the evening a lot lately and tonight she asked if she could mush up the rest of it with her hands after she was done eating it.
We haven’t really had any “homework” the past couple of visits. She’s just told us to keep trying to get her to take bites of things. Which is what we’ve been trying to do forever…so it doesn’t really feel like anything special is happening on the home front. That’s part of the reason I didn’t update after last week’s session. Nothing very exciting happened, so I didn’t even know what to write.
Anyway, that’s what I know for today. Hope everyone reading this is having a great day. Lots of love to all.
H
