Today I took Kai for his second day of therapy with Marti. We decided to conduct an experiment since on his last session we did music therapy AND sauna at the same time. This time around we did music therapy first to see if it made a difference on it's own followed by sauna therapy to see it's effects without the music.
Kai has some sensory issues and doesn't like the headphones on his head. We put them on his head and tried to keep him very occupied to keep them on. He played with a lot of toys and Little Tykes cars. We got about 20 minutes of music therapy in before he took off the headphones and wouldn't put them back on. He played like normal, but there wasn't a large improvement with the low tone of his jaw/mouth area.
Next Kai and I went into the sauna for half an hour at 125 degrees. We played cars, sang songs together, and drank our water together. Like last week, he came out with a tighter jaw line and less drool. He talked in the car and sang. He made a "list" for the first time. He said, "Nilk Firsht, get puggy and ny-ny" - this translates to Milk first, get pluggy (paci) and go to sleep. His first list! He was totally pooped by the time we got home. We had quite a bit of traffic heading back to South Austin.
We got home and he said hello to Daddy, Ryenne, and Cruz. He got his milk, walked upstairs, and asked to go to bed. Tomorrow we'll be crawling in the tunnel more and I will try the headphones on him again.
2 comments:
glad to hear kai is reacting in such a positive way. i have been thinking of him and you. xo.
I am so happy you are seeing improvements in your sweet boy! It helps Teagan for us to put a headband on around the headphones so he doesn't feel so top heavy. And distraction, it took awhile for him to really be open to wearing them without a battle. Hang in there!!
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