I am the the mother of two boys, ages 4.5 y and 1.5 y,
My oldest son still nurses, our start was bumpy and rough, thrush, bad latch, so on so on..
We overcame all of this and when I got pregnant, he still nursed and now together with his brother.
The oldest nurses at waking and when he goes to bed and maybe 1 or 2 times during the day.
The youghest, well, I do not know, maybe 100 times?
Anyway, the oldest has Verbal dyspraxia of speech and a light form of Sensoric integration disorder.
We saw a speech therapist when he was 11 month old, because he always vomitted and choked when trying solids.
He had a strong gag-reflex, very in the front of his mouth.
When he was 2 he spoke no more than 3 words. We saw again a ST and it helped a bit.
He still talked not much when he was 3 and very bad (his speech was very bad ) so again a ST but this one thought he was autistic and we left, because I could not imagine such a diagnosis.
Finally, we found aSpeech therapist / Sensoric Integration therapist (occupational therapist) and she said Verbal dyspraxia and it fits!!
He speaks better when in movement, esp when we are there, once a week.
I never told her about the BF, I just asumed, she knew, because the previoust therapist knew.
But I found out she did not, so I told her (via mail) and the very nex session, she said it would be better to stop nursing him.
She said:
- the nursing, continued and daily, puts him back in a bad movement with his tongue (lazy, low in the mouth)
he has difficulty raising and moving his tongue around on demand.
(letters like L, R, N, M, etc etc)
- she said, she did not really think it caused his bad speech abillity, but most likely contributed to it and it would be wise to make him experience more, better and more stimulating impulses, than nursing at the breast, that is she said a low tongue mechanism and not good for him
He never used a bottle or a pacifier, only 1 week in his live and he never used a sippy cup, he drank from a regular cup at 9 mo old. he now uses regular cups and straws.
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I really want to help him, really, but is she really right? Because my son is nowwhere near weaning, he just started kindergarten and is such a sensitive boy, he really needs his nursingtime with me.
He and his brother are bonding so good now!
And I am fearfull, he will turn to other - bad - mouth things, I was a very sensitive bottlefed girl and I thumbsucked untill my 10the year, only stopped after a bicylce accident, forcing me to stop because of the braces I got.
I also snore ..
I sometimes think, me nursing him for so long (and in a babycarrier a lot when he was a baby) made him cope with his sensitiviy better and that is made him come out better then if he had been on the bottle or pacifier?..
I really hope you can answer my questions, or if you know someone who can?
My oldest son still nurses, our start was bumpy and rough, thrush, bad latch, so on so on..
We overcame all of this and when I got pregnant, he still nursed and now together with his brother.
The oldest nurses at waking and when he goes to bed and maybe 1 or 2 times during the day.
The youghest, well, I do not know, maybe 100 times?
Anyway, the oldest has Verbal dyspraxia of speech and a light form of Sensoric integration disorder.
We saw a speech therapist when he was 11 month old, because he always vomitted and choked when trying solids.
He had a strong gag-reflex, very in the front of his mouth.
When he was 2 he spoke no more than 3 words. We saw again a ST and it helped a bit.
He still talked not much when he was 3 and very bad (his speech was very bad ) so again a ST but this one thought he was autistic and we left, because I could not imagine such a diagnosis.
Finally, we found aSpeech therapist / Sensoric Integration therapist (occupational therapist) and she said Verbal dyspraxia and it fits!!
He speaks better when in movement, esp when we are there, once a week.
I never told her about the BF, I just asumed, she knew, because the previoust therapist knew.
But I found out she did not, so I told her (via mail) and the very nex session, she said it would be better to stop nursing him.
She said:
- the nursing, continued and daily, puts him back in a bad movement with his tongue (lazy, low in the mouth)
he has difficulty raising and moving his tongue around on demand.
(letters like L, R, N, M, etc etc)
- she said, she did not really think it caused his bad speech abillity, but most likely contributed to it and it would be wise to make him experience more, better and more stimulating impulses, than nursing at the breast, that is she said a low tongue mechanism and not good for him
He never used a bottle or a pacifier, only 1 week in his live and he never used a sippy cup, he drank from a regular cup at 9 mo old. he now uses regular cups and straws.
-
I really want to help him, really, but is she really right? Because my son is nowwhere near weaning, he just started kindergarten and is such a sensitive boy, he really needs his nursingtime with me.
He and his brother are bonding so good now!
And I am fearfull, he will turn to other - bad - mouth things, I was a very sensitive bottlefed girl and I thumbsucked untill my 10the year, only stopped after a bicylce accident, forcing me to stop because of the braces I got.
I also snore ..
I sometimes think, me nursing him for so long (and in a babycarrier a lot when he was a baby) made him cope with his sensitiviy better and that is made him come out better then if he had been on the bottle or pacifier?..
I really hope you can answer my questions, or if you know someone who can?