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[quote=Anonymous]My son was born 3 1/2 months early and is almost 19 months.   In short,  developmentally is slowly catching up to real age instead his adjusted age in almost every area except for eating.  He likes to eat, we just can't get him to eat very much table food outside of the crackers and cheerios.  He has finally reached the point that he starting to dislike baby food and we have to detract him with a toy in order to feed him.  I'm sure I will get a bunch moms telling him that's the wrong to go about it, but he was born very small (1lb 1ounce) and we have to get the calories in him  He is growing but is still 1% height and weight.

Because of his premature birth and low birth weight  he is receiving services from the infant and toddlers program. The OT specialist has had some inventive ideas like, 1) using a nuk before meals, 2) Only introduce one food at a time 3) Keep drinking Pedisure to make up for the calories, 4) add oatmeal to baby food and make it thicker and thicker over time. 5) offer him different textures to play with (i.e yogurt, pasta, play-do.)  So far the nuk (stick with a bumpy end) helped a little a but not much.  This week we are starting going to start having him use a vibrating tooth brush and help with desensitization.

I'm really beginning to  loose hope.  Have anyone had to deal with this? Has anything worked for you?  Are there any books that you would recommend?  I purchased 3 books so far on sensory processing order and they haven't given me any suggestions I haven't heard already. I am open to ANY suggestions at this point. HELP![/quote]

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