Adventures in OT: Feeding Therapy

My last blog post, read it here, was about my gratitude towards my ability to breastfeed my 10 month old son.  He is thriving on breastmilk and is quite the chunky monkey – as we affectionately refer to him.  He is over a whopping 19lbs – much larger and heavier than my first son was…

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Adventures in Occupational Therapy: Body Brushing

My last couple posts have been about the start of our occupational therapy journey with my older son.  For the last three years I have questioned some of my sons’ behaviors only to be told that they were normal and that he would grow out of them.  Fast forward and we now know that my…

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Occupational Therapy

In my post last week (read it HERE) I talked about my older sons’ recent sensory processing diagnosis.  Now that we know the root cause of many of my sons’ behaviors we are working on how to change some of them for the better.  To that end, my son is now receiving occupational therapy –…

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Sensory Processing

In the past year I’ve posted a few times about what it’s like to have a difficult toddler and to manage problematic behaviors.  I’ve often wondered if his behaviors were my fault or if something else was at play but time and time again I’ve been told that “boys will be boys” and that he’s…

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