About a month ago my older daughter of two kept on going after some colored poms that I was intending to use as a project. Out of desperation to keep her from annoying me while I was tending to my 3 month infant, I decided to let her have a few of the large poms to play with. My younger daughter was and is still in physical therapy where we have been working on her indwelling thumbs. She seemed to be very interested in these cheap poms that were actually soft so I gave her one to her to her delight. she actually improved her grasp while playing with these. Another idea I had was to use a craft bag of miscellaneous pipe cleaners too for the different textures. I'm working on other ideas ... I learned from my daughter's stay in the hospital that you don't always need big fancy toys. I made her a mobile out of construction paper that she loved to watch also. I'm planning on make her another mobile using the pipe cleaner and other textured things that she will be allowed to grab on and tug. My hope through this blog is to help with productive ideas for other parents. Best wishes to you who read this.
Next blog goal is to make a brace and show you how I do it to encourage her thumbs to open because there doesn't seem to be ones her size.
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