Speech Therapy
Greetings to all.
Xavier met with his speech therapist, Miss Robin today. This was Xavier's fourth visit. She was ecstatic with his progress!
As in the previous sessions, she asked us, the parents, how things are going? are we feeding Xavier in his high chair? what types of foods is he eating? is he taking purees yet? The whole battery of questions (always with a heavy focus on purees. I swear; I don't know how the Human race made it this far without the Magic Bullet). After that, we fitted Xavier with his full-body bib and let him model it for Miss Robin, who has wanted to see these in action since we told her about them. We then set Xavier into the evaluation chair clamped to the evaluation table (a small, round table about one foot high)
Starting with dry foods like a cheese puff and some yogurt drops, Miss Robin worked up to Xavier's favorite: vanilla pudding (from a snack pack lunch size). She was able to feed Xavier most of the pack with a spoon. Xavier swallowed about a quarter of the pack. What he lost, he lost because the spoonful fed into his mouth had too much on it, or the spoon did not get far enough back in the mouth.
Eating a quarter of a snack pack of vanilla pudding fed by a spoon is awesome! Miss Robin has not been able to get in touch with Dr. Abbey (they've been playing phone tag). I made the comment "It's a good thing you haven't got hold of Dr. Abbey until this." Miss Robin expected to leave a glowing report for Dr. Abbey on Xavier's progress.
We still have some work with the spoon feeding, but Xavier not once pushed the spoon away or gave the clam mouth, or guarded his face. When Xavier was finished, he made it clear he was done eating and wanted his bottle. This is great progress!
That's about it. I thought today's meeting was blog-worthy. Thank you for your prayers; I've just described another one of the answers! Great is our God!