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Sippy Cups
My 8 mth old, Sean, was born with a cleft lip & Palate. We are prepairing for his palate repair in June. A local speech instructor suggested that we use a ...
Babies Can't Wait
One of my twin boys was born with a cleft Lip and Palate, so he needs speech therapy. They did hearing evaluations and vision, you have to provide with some ...
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- Yes, we used it for my daughter and he should be evaluated. They are incredible. It is completely worth investigating to see if he qualifies. In Richmond Hill/Hine...
- I read this alot through your responses..but I felt I needed to say it! tell your friend to go with her gut and demand he be tested for speech and for hearing!! my s...
- One of the children from our playgroup has been working with a therapist through babies can't wait (he is 2.5 and has only been working with the therapist for 5 weeks ...
Early Intervention for Language Development
My daughter was born with cleft lip and palate and has had other issues develop since then. She started with Early Intervention at 3 months. ...
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- I used to work in the preschool setting before I had my children and we worked with EI all the time. It helps a lot. I know that it is also covered by insurance. And t...
- Hi S., YES - I can't recommend EI enough. My son was 22 months and not saying much at all. Maybe 5-10 words. If that. I had him evaluated, and he was 8 months de...
- I actually had early intervention for my son... I thought that instead for helping him they were parenting me....I thought they were digging into my personal life...M...
Newborn Throwing up Milk Thru Nose
He's so young that without a cleft lip that is so obvious, they may not have looked or felt far enough into his mouth to see it. All my best, ...
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- R. I am a mother of three little girls. My first one did not spit up at all. But baby number 2 did just like your is and so has baby #3 who is now 19 weeks old. WHa...
- if it keeps up or increases to every feeding or becomes projectile...you may want to ask his doctor about the posibility of pyloric stenosis. I know my son had it at 3...
- um why are you waking him up to feed him? when hes hungry he will get up. sounds like you could be over feeding... plus when you throw up it does come out your nose i ...
My Baby Won't Latch to My Breasts
She doesn't have a cleft lip; but a birth defect in the roof of her mouth that you can't see on examination. I cannot tell you what a relief (even a year ...
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- T., My children took 11 weeks and seven weeks, respectively, to learn to latch on. I had flat nipples to begin with, so I used the shield, pumped and fed through a...
- T., I too had issues with my baby latching on. He had slight jaundice so it was super hard keeping him awake as well. I was so stressed I would just cry. It is super ...
- Hi T., Decide how long you want to keep trying, then just stick to your decision and don't feel guilty about it. She might learn how to latch and everything will wor...
Issues with Different Bottle Nipples
I do know, even though it didn't apply to us, the most helpful sites were for cleft lip. They have a lot of great products! Helpful? ...
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- Hi D., Sounds like he may not be getting enough of the nipple in his mouth. With the playtex, he needs to have his lips all flanged out and at, or past, the textured...
- if the issue is he's sucking so hard to get it to come out, you might want to try 2 hole nipples. avent recommends you move up to 2 holes at 1 month. our little girl...
- Try a larger nipple so he doesn't have to suck so hard to get the formula. Maybe that will help him regulate how much he sucks in at a time.
My 18 Month Old Won't Talk!
Aug 21, 2009 ... We did take him to a speech therapist much later b/c he was born with a cleft lip and it was offered to us, we went even though we wer ...
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- C., Where do you live? You could contact Johnson County Infant Toddler Services and they could evaluate your son, they might have to have a request from your doctor. ...
- I haven't read other responses, but for one thing listen to what your mommy instinct is telling you. I believe 100% that a loving and in tune mom knows if something i...
- Early interventions will help him and your family out greatly.I don't have a child with any special need's but at 18 months his vocabularly of only 3 word's & lack of ...
2 Year Old Vocabulary
Aug 21, 2009 ... My son was born with a cleft lip and palate so we had him in the Help Me Grow program to work with speech. He will be 2 next month and like ...
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- Our pediatrician told us that kids are usually one of two ways: they either talk a lot and don't "motor around" much, or they're walking/running around and not talkin...
- Hi there J., I have the same issue!!! It's amazing how you always think your child is the Only one with "that issue" whatever it may be. I actually spoke with his p...
- Well, by looking though some of your responses it seems that pretty much everyone has about the same story to tell. So I might as well add mine. My daughter was very...
10 Month Old Wont Drink His Formula
(my second son also was born with a cleft lip and palate so we had to add the carnation (much cheaper) or pedisure for the extra calories to prepare him for ...
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- You probably should ask your pediatrian; however, I do think that they need formula because of all of the iron, etc. It is recommended for at least a year for brain gr...
- He is too young for regular milk but I don't think that's really the problem here. The problem is the juice. He should be getting the bulk of his nutrition from form...
- I switched my first son (who is now 5.5) over to whole milk when he was nine months because he would not drink the formula any more at all but by 11 months he wanted ...
Would like to Hear About Experiences with 1) Tubes in Ears 2) Tonsils Removed...
... the number right here but call medical city and get it Any way Our son is 3 and has had 3 sets put inhe was born with cleft lippalate and needs them but ...
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- Get her tonsils and adnoids removed at the same time you get the tubes put in. Don't let them talk you into one or the other. My daughter was the healthiest she had ...
- A. - My oldest son (19 now)..had a T&A and tubes (2 x) and still had problems with ruptures - though he was almost 4 when they fnally put the tubes in - that made a bi...
- I don't know too much about the tonsils but putting tubes in her ears is the right thing to do. We put tubes in my now 13 year old step daughter when she was 11 and e...
