Have any of you experienced this? If so, who reccommended this to you and or how did you know your child needed it? My pedi has never reccommended it but when I was speaking to a psychologist and telling her of my LO's feeding issues she said she would maybe have her evaluated. I figured 9 months was too late...she eats solids completely fine; just has issues with bottle feeding (since about 3 months)
Any advice/excperience is appreciated.
TIA-Jaime
Re: feeding therapy..
well, I knew my child needed it when he stopped eating entirely. That part was easy. *LOL*
But honestly, we didn't do much for a while. His OT did some jaw strengthening stuff, but not a lot. He just really started FT a couple of months ago. Yes, there are things they can try to help with liquids. You might just go ahead and get her evaluated and see what they/you think.
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I think distraction is fine if that's what you need to do. Like I said above, DS will only eat while sleeping (things slowly progressed to that). And at our therapy evaluation the therapist said that since we have a system down to get him to eat to keep doing it.