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Conference moira::parenting

Title:	Parenting
Notice:	Previous PARENTING version at MOIRA::PARENTING_V3
Moderator:	GEMEVN::FAIMANY

Created:	Thu Apr 09 1992
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1292
Total number of notes:	34837

557.0. "Still Drooling" by BUSY::BONINA () Tue Jul 20 1993 15:30

    Natasha (almost 2) is an excessive drooler.  I wipe her chin all
    day/night long.  She wipes it too!
    
    She has all her teeth - had them all by 1 year.  Is this drooling
    unusual?
    
    When she has a cold her face from the runny nose & drooling is enough
    to make you crazy.  Although last night her nose was running and she
    grabbed a tissue and blew her nose herself....a real good blow too...to
    bad it didn't make the tissue. :-)
    
    Let me know your experience if any with this.
    
    Thanks,
    Robin
    
    
    PS:  She outright refuses to wear bids.  If you have stock in Kleenex
         you should be doing well because I buy so many boxes! :-)

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
557.1	droolers	EMDS::CUNNINGHAM		`Wed Jul 21 1993 10:48`	15
	Sorry I don't have any advice (my dr said some kids just drool alot!) but wanted to let you know youre not alone... I have an excessive drooler...21 mos. old Michael... Just when I think its stopping..it starts up again... He will wear bib tho, but I am so sick of seeing them on them its not funny! I must own 30 of them, NO LIE! I keep saying he'll be wearing one till the day he gets married! He too has all his teeth except the 2 yr molars, and I was wondering if they may be coming early... (???).. Good Luck, Chris
557.2		NEWPRT::NEWELL_JO	Don't wind your toys too tight	`Wed Jul 21 1993 14:10`	7
	My Michael, who is now almost six, drooled until he was almost 3. I really worried about it at the time. I thought he must have some kind of physical deformity, that was causing it. But one day he just stopped drooling and for the first time in almost three years, his chin was not red and wet. Jodi-
557.3		XLIB::CHANG	Wendy Chang, ISV Support	`Wed Jul 21 1993 14:21`	5
	My son, Eric, drooled until he was 3.5 yr old. He will be 5 next week. My pedi. told me that some kids drool (especially boys) until 5-6 yr old. Don't worry, it will stop. Wendy
557.4	Muscle tone might be a factor	JARETH::ROESLER		`Mon Jul 26 1993 12:11`	14
	I was told by a speech pathologist that some children have lax muscle tone around their oral area (cheeks, mouth, lips), which can result in excessive drooling. (Sometimes, though not always, children with this problem also have some kind of speech delay because they have trouble physically forming words.) If muscle tone is the problem, there are some simple things you can do to remedy this. Ask your pediatrician or (better still) a speech pathologist. Pediatricians aren't specialists in everything, and you can't expect them to respond appropriately to all subtleties. Good luck! --Merle
557.5	re: .4 / thank you all!	BUSY::BONINA		`Mon Jul 26 1993 12:22`	17
	re: .4 Most of Natasha drool comes out when she's thinking or working on a project. She, like her Dad sticks her tongue out to the side whenever they're engrossed in anything or acting silly. I kid my husband that's how he know Natasha's his daughter.......cuz she doesn't look like him at all. Natasha's speech is beautiful....and that's no Mommy bragging either. She has her Mommy's gift of gab. --------------------------- Thank you all for your idea & comments. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only Mommy wiping a constant wet chin.