- Joined
- Jan 29, 2021
The tongue thrusting is giving me flashbacks to working with this one kid with HIE... every time I'd brush his teeth, do oral suctioning, or apply lip balm (basically anything to do with the mouth) he would do a similar disgusting rhythmic tongue thrusting, as if he was a baby trying to latch onto a nipple. Except he was 17-18 years old, and never breastfed even in infancy. He was 100% tube fed his whole life and he still never grew out of that suckling reflex. It even made this wet smacking sound *shudder*
As they get older, and the face gets bigger and the head gets proportionally smaller, and the voice/tard noises sound deeper, trust me these infantile reflexes get less and less cute.
As they get older, and the face gets bigger and the head gets proportionally smaller, and the voice/tard noises sound deeper, trust me these infantile reflexes get less and less cute.