SPD update

Thought I'd do a quick update of Jake's sensory issues while I was thinking about it:

- Jake is obsessed with smelling things.  You know how babies will put a new object in their mouth to explore it?  Yeah, Jake does that with his nose.  Every time he gets a new toy he smells it, and makes ME smell it.
- He's finally eating ice cream, a little.  Only soft-serve.  I think he's had trouble with the cold combined with the texture (he won't eat pudding, either) so this is progress.
- He seems to be stemming a bit on a regular basis, and is excessively bouncy.  I don't know if this is because he isn't getting enough exercise, or that's just his latest tic.  (No longer twirling his hair and he usually doesn't grind his teeth, so I'll take what I can get.)
- has been having meltdowns again when he's faced with something new or something different from his expectations.  This comes in waves and he had been doing really well, then went crazy on Sunday at church.  Also had a melt-down at his preschool orientation when I left for work and he had to stay with my mom.  Good times.
- his grip on a pencil is getting SO much better, and he's really improving with intentional coloring.  It's still scribbly and not in the lines, but it's in focused spots and he's using more colors (rather than just scribbling one color on a whole page.)
- he's eating purple Fruit Loops sometimes instead of picking them out
- tried cherry-flavored juice at church and loved it.  Usually he refuses to try new flavors of drinks.
- still favors methodical play (lining things up, transferring water or sand from one container to another) but is doing good staying focused for board and card games.  He kicks my butt in Memory (because *I* can't stay focused!)

Comments

[jodee]

Hello I don't have time before work to type everything I would like but I also have a son with SPD and he has come soooooo far just with changing to all organic food, no food in cans and no under any circumstance food colorings!! He also has organic coconut oil every day 3 tablespoons and flax-seed oil smoothies and no dairy, also try the coromega fish oil supplement, orange flavor and swish down w/ a drink. You can get it on vitacost.com for 1/2 price along with many other wonderful supplements like the animal parade vitamins kidz greenz, vit c, zinc, calcium, multi. I have been giving my kids the Peter Gillums liqid vits Organic and it really helps all of us. From using it I had exema go away, also stopped with the dairy as well though, but its a God send, anyway I thought I would pass on some info I have to go to work now, if you would like to chat please feel free to e-mail me. I would have given anything for someone to help us when Blake was 2 and we didn't know what was going on. I don't know maybe you already do all of that, but definately no fast food either!! I told my kids at 3 and 1 that good ol McD's was broken and haven't been back since and that was 3 and 1/2 years ago, anyway thanks for the post.
Jodee