On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:31:29 -0400, Jo-Anne Elder <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>>So just my experience, but yes breastfeeding problems were the 1st sign of
>>oral-speech issues.
>Jo-Anne


My second took a couple of weeks to get the hang of nursing.  She kept
dropping the nipple, I had to hold it in her mouth.  At around ten years
old she got an orthodontic appliance to help her under-developed jaw grow
into normal position and size, to fix her pronounced underbite.  She spoke
early and always clearly.

My third nursed like a champ from birth and didn't talk till three, and no
one but me could understand him even then.  He had only six consonants at
age four, when he started speech therapy (with a wonderful former LLL
member).  He was talkly clearly by age five.

Coincidentally (?), he learned to draw about the same time he learned to
talk, only a few scribbles until then.  His drawing abilities kept exact
pace with his speech development.  He also let go of breastfeeding, and got
over his stranger-phobia, as his speech improved.

So in my experience, poor nursing was an early sign of oral issues, though
not of speech problems.  Just one more factor to keep in mind :-).

-Claire Bloodgood, IBCLC

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