Cooking dinner I noticed food flying through the air across the kitchen. I look over at my dark hair beauty as he was having a BLAST throwing his food across the room. I remember a few months ago when we were doing an evaluation and Mason wasn't able to hold a toy, a therapist asked if he was throwing yet. I said "No I wish!" I only said that because at that time he wasn't doing much physically. She told me that is one of the biggest complaints from parents because kids who have downs suffer from sensory processing
Because their muscle tone is poor, they do not ‘feel’ their body properly. They get a sense of joy out of throwing or hitting. She continued to tell me how they are not doing it to be naughty and they don't care what they throw. As I'm watching Mason pick up his food with those short chunky fingers and chuck it across the room I remembered all to well the reaction of the therapists when I said " I WISH!!"
Besides Mason sitting so well in his high chair, able to feed himself we have also noticed ALOT of noise coming from his way. His recent thing besides throwing food is banging on his high chair tray REALLY hard. His grabbing is strong, his hitting is hard and boy does he have an arm of him. Baseball perhaps?
To help Mason and his lack of sensory we introduce him to different textures...rocks, sticks, sand, I crumble crackers on his baby food or applesauce, and I continue to give him full body massages. Also with that our little guy is now being taught "NO Mason!" 11 months old and just now teaching him a mothers most known word.
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