Swallow Therapy - Take 1

Today was our first appointment with the speech and swallow therapist. We learned a lot and it relieves me to know that I am not crazy and there really is an issue that needs professional help. She watched him eat from his bottle and then progressed to trying to get him to put a spoon in his mouth and then a spoon with something on it. Needless to say, he did what he always does and refused to even open his mouth once there was food on the spoon. She did get a spoon in his mouth with nothing on it and she said that he was trying to move his tongue to the sides of his mouth instead of stabilizing the spoon in the middle of his mouth like he was supposed to.

Since eating is just one of those things that we do and don't think about I'm having a really difficult time trying to figure out how to break it down into manageable parts for him. She gave us a lot of little things to do over the next couple weeks to try and get him moving forward so hopefully those are successful. We will be adding a spoon to his toy box and to his bath toys so that he gets more used to it during play time. We will also be trying to get him to let us put our fingers in his mouth and anything else he will let us put in there easily. I am also going to try and let him play with food while in his highchair to get used to the new textures and just hope that he puts some in his mouth by mistake. We tried it today, see for yourself how it went! He did put his hand in his mouth once and immediately started spitting it out. Poor kid, he really doesn't know what he's missing!