Feeding Issues

This Week in Achievements!

May 24, 2008

After last week’s wild travel adventures and being so far off our schedules that we might as well have been in a different dimension, we didn’t expect a whole lot on the progress front this week. Our goal this week was just to regroup and get back into the routine. Our sleep has been erratic [...]

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What’s Your Autistic Toddler Like?

May 7, 2008

[Update 2/20/2009 - We're now releasing an update to this post in a series called "What's Your Autistic Toddler Like Now?" Read this post here first, and then go forward in time nine months and see what happens next!] With some regularity, conversations come up about what ‘autistic stuff’ J-Man does and doesn’t do. I [...]

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Weird behavior of the week

April 25, 2008

Lately J-Man has been trying to stick small objects, particularly little bits of food, into his ears or up his nose. Normally this involves small bits or crumbs of chicken nuggets or toast. I don’t think he’s ever tried to stick anything sharp up there. Let me just say that pulling a little fragment of [...]

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Yeah Toast!

April 13, 2008

Little Man has decided that the WORD for cheese toast is Coco. He can’t say a “t” you understand. He walks over to the counter where the toaster oven sits, and says, “Coco.” That’s right, he SAYS it. Just to make sure I was understanding correctly the first time, I asked him if he could [...]

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Why We’re Not GF/CF

March 31, 2008

Already we have had people suggesting that J-man go on a GFCF diet (that’s gluten-free, casein-free for those who don’t know). Well, here’s the thing… if we started such a diet: J-man would have no protein, because the only protein he DOES eat is chicken nuggets twice a day (hence, breading) and his daily cheese [...]

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Accentuate the Positive

March 19, 2008

I had a rough night last night. It was one of those cumulative sort of episodes where you stockpile stress and worry and get to the point where you have to empty some of what’s in that bucket to get to the next day. I’m sure that means I need to focus on better ways [...]

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Coughing and whining

March 8, 2008

No, I’m not talking about Tim. J-man seems to be getting some sort of illness. Please let it NOT be the flu. I want him to be as well as possible for Tuesday’s evaluation. Of course, I should be used to this by now – every evaluation he’s ever had was prefaced by some sort [...]

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Party Animal? Only if it’s a mouse…

February 24, 2008

We went to our friends’ little boy’s first birthday party today. Of course, it was scheduled for almost exactly when we try to the J-man down for his nap (not that he sleeps every day, but we try!). He had a good time running around their open floor plan house, although in the beginning, he [...]

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