A Super Cooper Update

By Kate Swenson | February 24, 2016 |

I haven’t given an old fashioned Cooper update in a long time. I remember reading updates when I used to follow a lot of autism blogs and comparing my kiddo to theirs. I would be like, Cooper can do that but wait, oh, shit, he can’t do that. It was good and bad. So, don’t do that. No comparing. Each kiddo is different. Language: No words at all. He doesn’t even have a sound for a word. Nothing consistent at all. That’s hard. I always wanted him to make a…

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Bye Bye Miralax

By Kate Swenson | February 3, 2014

(Warning: Many overshares in this part. I assume we are all parents though so hopefully poop talk won’t shock you.) I know I have mentioned on here before that Cooper has issues going poop. A little back story. Cooper had 1 meconium poop in the hospital after he was born and then didn’t poop again for 10 days. I shit you not! (I crack myself up!)  I breastfed Cooper for the first 11 months of his life and I remember I tried everything with my diet to help with the constipation. No go.…

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