Posts by snowmom5

When two of our kids did OT for SPD (younger at that time, 6 and 4), they did a particular short, intensive program in conjunction with listening therapy, which supposedly helps make the OT more effective. We were very happy with the...

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Thanks for your thoughts ladies. I have a lot to process. I have more questions, not the least of which is, how do you get very picky eaters to completely change how they eat? It's not that bad for me, as a grown up (since I seem to...

Quote: Originally Posted by LauraLoo Think about this. If he can accomplish a task on the first try, what's mentally engaging about this? Why not look around and check out what else is going on? DS was/is a lot...

Just a thought, but could there have been anything else in the ice cream that caused the reaction? The way the trial went doesn't entirely make sense to me, having had no reaction to cow milk but then reacted to ice cream. I guess if...

thanks, ladies, I really, really appreciate your thoughts. My head is still swirling on all of this. It would never have even come to mind if I hadn't been looking into allergy stuff re: BF dd. I started him on rice and oat cereal...

two things - on the pork, it just so happens I bought some yesterday, very thinly sliced boneless chops, and cooked one in the grill pan in just a few minutes, with salt. DD loved it. Great quick-cooking alternative - I love...

Quote: Originally Posted by purplemoon My oldest just turned 4 a couple months ago and it was suggested by his preschool teacher to get a speech therapist from the district in. I already had an appointment with a speech...

Quote: Originally Posted by f&p'smama I read the article more in light of the current health care debate, than being about scaremongering about twins. NICU time is extremely expensive and having twins increases the...

I think if you really want to know "average", then this isn't the place to ask I think average is probably by the start of K.