Robot Arms: Day 1

Can you guess why there are homemade splints attached to Littleman's arms? Hint: Think of his two bad habits.

Did you guess?

Okay, his palate is pushing forward from all the thumb-sucking and I don't know what else to try. And his other hand is always wandering into his diaper. He has no shame. It's gotta stop!

So...

I got this idea from a magazine. As you can see, he is not at all happy about it. Tonight was his first night in "robot arms". Anytime his hands began to wander where they shouldn't, we strapped them on. Luckily, he HATED it!

I saw definite progress tonight as he was falling asleep (his favorite time for his two bad habits). I noticed he would start bringing his thumb to his mouth, hesitate a second, then tuck his hand away. And he didn't even TRY the Al Bundy hand resting in the pants move! It's a start...

P.S. When he's older, I'm sure he'll either love us or hate us for this. I'm hoping love (fingers crossed).

P.P.S. He probably won't love that I blogged this, though. Remind me to erase it before he develops his social conscience.