Yay, I'm 97 weeks old today!
Masinja went to PT this week for the last time. He was discharged because he has met all of his goals for gross motor skills. He will need to go back in 6 - 8 months though for a checkup to make sure he is still on track. I know he is going to miss his therapist immensely. Whenever we say her name he repeats us and grins from ear to ear!
Masinja also went to OT this week. T.M. and I have been having a lot of trouble getting him to eat lately. He prefers to throw things on the floor or to spit his food out rather than chew and swallow it. He has become extremely picky, too. He has been subsisting on chicken nuggets, mac and cheese and yogurt. His therapist gave me a few ideas to try to get him to eat more and she also got him transitioned to a cup with a straw. It was actually pretty neat how she did it.
She used a honey bear container with a long flexible straw. She explained to me how it was easy to sqeeze the honey bear and get a bit of water to go up the straw and into Masinja's mouth. She said after a little while he would figure out that sucking on the straw would produce the same result. Well after only about 5 minutes Masinja was doing it all by himself! He loves to drink from a straw cup now because he can hold it all by himself like a big boy :O)
That's all for now.
Peace,
T.M.M.
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