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<blockquote data-quote="SRL" data-source="post: 202010" data-attributes="member: 701"><p>Hi and welcome to our forum. I'm glad that you found us.</p><p></p><p>I didn't have a mover like you do, but so many things that you described took me back to baby/toddler/preschool days. I bet you're exhausted.</p><p></p><p>After reading through your descriptions I am going to suggest that you push your pediatrician to refer you for a multidisciplinary evaluation, and because of her age and medical issues, at minimum with a developmental and behavioral pediatrician and an occupational therapist. These specialists can usually be found at Children's Hospitals and at some university hospitals. (In Illinois I believe there are developmental pediatricians on staff in the Springfield, St. Louis, and Chicago areas. Often pediatricians will be reluctant to refer to these right off, instead preferring behavioral therapists and psychiatrists, but be insistent that you want diagnosis first in order to determine a correct treatment/intervention path.</p><p></p><p>With her sleep patterns and the dad's sleep history (by the way, check out the term narcolepsy) I'm thinking that a sleep study might also be good. </p><p></p><p>We're not diagnosticians but the food and clothing issues (and possibly the constant motion) that you are describing sound an awful lot like something called Sensory Integration/Processing Dysfunction. Kids with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) process sensory stimuli very differently than most of us. Tags on clothes or sounds might be legitimately painful to them. Foods or food odors that seem normal to us might elicit that immediate heaving feeling we might have had at our worst nightmare when we were pregnant. Take a look at the article here and if it rings a bell, pick up a copy of a book called The Out of Sync Child by Carol Kranowitz. Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) rarely rides alone, usually it's in conjunction with other neurological issues.</p><p><a href="http://www.tsbvi.edu/seehear/fall97/sensory.htm" target="_blank">http://www.tsbvi.edu/seehear/fall97/sensory.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Until you get a handle on what's going on, I would lay low in terms of expectations. Get food into her, but don't be insistent that she eats certain foods or at certain times. It can actually make the situation much worse if it turns out to be Sensory Integration Disorder (SID).</p><p></p><p>Hang in there--hopefully we can get you pointed in the direction of getting her some help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SRL, post: 202010, member: 701"] Hi and welcome to our forum. I'm glad that you found us. I didn't have a mover like you do, but so many things that you described took me back to baby/toddler/preschool days. I bet you're exhausted. After reading through your descriptions I am going to suggest that you push your pediatrician to refer you for a multidisciplinary evaluation, and because of her age and medical issues, at minimum with a developmental and behavioral pediatrician and an occupational therapist. These specialists can usually be found at Children's Hospitals and at some university hospitals. (In Illinois I believe there are developmental pediatricians on staff in the Springfield, St. Louis, and Chicago areas. Often pediatricians will be reluctant to refer to these right off, instead preferring behavioral therapists and psychiatrists, but be insistent that you want diagnosis first in order to determine a correct treatment/intervention path. With her sleep patterns and the dad's sleep history (by the way, check out the term narcolepsy) I'm thinking that a sleep study might also be good. We're not diagnosticians but the food and clothing issues (and possibly the constant motion) that you are describing sound an awful lot like something called Sensory Integration/Processing Dysfunction. Kids with Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) process sensory stimuli very differently than most of us. Tags on clothes or sounds might be legitimately painful to them. Foods or food odors that seem normal to us might elicit that immediate heaving feeling we might have had at our worst nightmare when we were pregnant. Take a look at the article here and if it rings a bell, pick up a copy of a book called The Out of Sync Child by Carol Kranowitz. Sensory Integration Disorder (SID) rarely rides alone, usually it's in conjunction with other neurological issues. [url]http://www.tsbvi.edu/seehear/fall97/sensory.htm[/url] Until you get a handle on what's going on, I would lay low in terms of expectations. Get food into her, but don't be insistent that she eats certain foods or at certain times. It can actually make the situation much worse if it turns out to be Sensory Integration Disorder (SID). Hang in there--hopefully we can get you pointed in the direction of getting her some help. [/QUOTE]
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