Feeding Therapy Begins Again

On April 16, Caden started receiving feeding therapy again. I mentioned in an earlier post about his evaluation with the therapist at the hospital. The first day was pretty tough for Caden. He has a hard time warming up to new people and is always convinced they are going to do something to hurt him. He's just been through so much in his short life that involves negative touch that he is wary of new people.

The other big change was location. All of his feeding therapy to date has been at home. This is the first time he has gone to a clinic for feeding. He's done every other kind of therapy in a clinic but not this. So taking all that into consideration, I think he did a pretty good job. Throughout the whole session he kept telling me he wanted to go home. When that didn't work he told me he needed to go potty. (He is newly potty trained and tends to use it as an excuse to get out of doing things, or at least delaying as long as possible.)

But we made it through the first session and I think it will get easier from here. He is supposed to go in twice/week for three months and then we'll see how he's doing and go from there. I appreciate your prayers as we try to get him to be a more independent eater, especially chewing food and feeding himself; two things he doesn't do yet.

I'll post some videos in a future post to show what he does during a session.