1st OT

Emilee had her first session with OT.  She comes out to the house and is teaching Emilee and us how to learn to eat beacuse of her tongue position and cleft palate. There are techniques that we are going to have to learn that will help teach her how to learn.  Therefore it will be a learning experience for all of us. But it will be fun to watch her eat new things, even if it does make a HUGE mess. =)

The first thing that she got to do was lick this stick thing that looks kind of like a tongue depresser at the doctor's office, but it's flavored with cherry.  (It really is, because we tasted it after OT left)

Then she got some cereal

This was the end result.  She hadn't slept much in the afternoon so she was already tired and OT was late so she was really hungry by the time this all started.

Overall, we learned some good tips and some exercises about our techniques and how she has to learn to push the food down with the muscles in the back of her tongue, so we have lots to do in the next two weeks and then OT will be back to see our notes and progress and introduce new things and more flavors.