I have an OT question for you. DD just qualified for services - speech therapy and likely OT for motor issues as well. I know you're doing OT with your DS. Are you home when they do it? They'll come to our house but I'm not home during the day - our nanny is. I'm just trying to figure out how this is likely to work with our schedule. I'm guessing I'll have to be there for at least some of this since a lot of DD's therapy seems like it will be about "training" us as parents.
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Our therapist comes at 8:00 am on my telework day, which works out well, because I can start my work day at 9:00 (well, 9:15 by the time I drive DS to his DCPs house and get back to my computer). Can you adjust your schedule one day a week to do something like that - either at the begining of the day - go into work one hour later - or at the end of the day - leave early?
Our service is definitely mostly training us to work with him. Our hour is spent talking about his progress, playing with him so she can show me how to help him with his gross motor and fine motor stuff, time in the highchair so she can show me methods to work on his eating, then talking about what to work on in the upcoming week. During all fo this I'm taking notes like mad.
I'm sure your provider will want to work with both you and the nanny, since you both provide care to your daughter - I know our OT wants to have a few sessions at DS's DCP's house during a lunch time so she can show the DCP some eating methods to do while he's with her during the day. If you can't schedule to be there every week, I'd plan to be there during the session, say, every other week, and have your nanny take really good notes at the ones you can't make so you know what they worked on.
When I told my supervisor I was getting help to get DS to learn to chew/eat - my supervisor was very understanding "clearly your child eating is more important than clocking in at 8:00" etc. I'm pretty lucky with my supervisor with things like this. He has no kids, yet sympathizes with the plight of a working mom with three little kids.