Therapy: feeding specialist

Auggie has occupational therapy tomorrow to help him transition to solids. The main goal of the therapy is to get him over his oral aversion by making food fun. We try to do this through a step process kind of like tasting wine: see, smell, touch and taste. We have tried rice cereal, carrots and apple sauce. He currently does not open his mouth , perferring instead to purse his lips when he sees the spoon coming. We're not quite sure why he has developed an oral aversion, but one theory is that he was so traumatized by his vomits as a young baby when we were also giving him bottles that he now associates anything we give him with the pain he experienced. He still nurses occasionally when he doesn't have too much phlegm in his throat.