Baby Steps

What does it look like to be a sensory kid?  For one of my kids, it is all about the container.  If it looks different, or feels different, he won't try it.

This means that we have been unsuccessfully trying to transition him from a bottle to a straw cup for six months now.  Last week, his feeding therapist told me that despite all of the speech issues that can come from a child drinking from a sippy cup, she has given up on transitioning him to a straw any time soon.  Instead she has settled on one particular sippy cup, which we now want him to at least try to drink out of.

With him being a sensory kid, we are thrilled with baby steps.

This is the bottle he currently drinks out of:

This is the cup we want him to drink out of:

So far, no way!  He won't go near it.  In an attempt to make this easier for him, we have mixed around the parts of the interchangeable cups, trying to help him slowly adjust to his new cup.  For a while, he would just sit with his cups, picking them up with a confused expression on his face and asking me over and over again, "milk?", "bottle?".  He would then put them up to his lips, say "mmm", and then put them back down again.

But after a week of hard work, we are very excited to say that he will now tolerate the following modification:

We still have a long way to go, but since we're measuring progress in baby steps around here, we're very proud of our little guy and how brave he was to try his new cup!