So how's it going with the SID thing...

someone asked me the other day. Not the first of the blogger friends to ask. Well, I think we are making some progress. Maybe it just feels that way because we are learning more about him and understanding more about what makes him "tick."

• The Occupational therapy is going well. He runs to his therapist with joy and laughs through the half an hour he spends there. She said to me today that she feels that he is already concentrating better and that she can understand his pronunciation better as she thinks he is talking better.
• The little isolation tent/nest has turned out to be a winner - he uses it regularly and it has made our mornings a whole lot better.
• At school the teacher reports that he is at least now sitting at his chair and doing tasks as the rest o the class. That is a huge step forward.
• "The Out -of -Sync child" has finally arrived from Kalahari and I have started reading it. Hunter is also going to.
• I have made contact with an organization that gives seminars for parents about SID a few times a year. They will email me for the next one.
• We try to incorporate some of the stuff the Occupational therapist do at home and it is helping a lot.
• We are also exploring other options to help him like horse riding and swimming.
• He is definitely getting better at sitting and doing something for instance play-do and drawing/colouring .
• We are not making progress in the potty training department - so we might enlist the help of a play therapist that calls herself the potty specialist.

• The part that is really getting us down though, is the sleeping. C is actually a worse sleeper - in the sense that he wakes up about 50% of the nights, come to out room and sleep on the little mattress we put out at the foot of our bed. But in all honesty, some nights I do not even wake up when he comes. So that is fine. But L.... and I only now realize that this is typically SID child, struggles to fall asleep some times, but wakes up some nights ( once to twice a week), totally unable to sleep again. He talks, he plays he wriggles around. He is 100% awake. Last night was another one of those, following on Saturday night. I saw that Tertia got a weighted blanket for her SID boy, and after reading a lot of  great reviews on it being a sleep saver have decided to order one. Really , we need to sleep.Very badly. And as from tonight, regardless of what sleep gurus say, we are taking him downstairs and letting him play, preferably in his tent and hopefully we can get some sleep.

So, all in all we have some improvements and are hoping for way more. Now if we can only get this sleep thing going and the no-nappies thing.