I had never heard about retained primitive reflexes until the maternal health nurse for our newborn baby gave me a book on it. She has taken a special interest in our older son, as she has a nephew with autism and had only recently been to a workshop about primitive reflexes.
It feels almost as if i have been led to it in some way and here is why.
For me to have even heard about primitive reflexes, I had to have met the maternal health nurse when I did.
For that to have happened:
* I had to live on this side of the city, (moved here only a few months ago) if I didn't live on this side I would never have met her.
* Had a baby when I did, which we really didn't plan for that well. I woke up one day and said to my husband "lets have another baby".... and we did!
* She had to have taken a special interest in primitive reflexes. She only did so because of her nephew.
* She had to have done the course when she did - there was only one course registered in this area for the whole year.
So I had been thinking maybe there was a "higher force" leading me to research more about retained reflexes, and was beginning to feel a bit strange about all of the co-incidences which led me to it, when my son's early intervention case worker paid us a visit.
She was busy showing me a range of exercises to try with our son, and I mentioned the book to her. Turns out these exercises she was doing are ones that help to inhibit primitive reflexes as well as help with co-ordination. First time she has ever shown them to me was 2 days after my meeting with the maternal health nurse. So I started thinking this is REALLY weird.
And then on Wednesday night, there on our local current affairs program is - you guessed it - a feature on retained primitive reflexes! With a lady that is running a program in another state in various schools and having excellent success with ADHD, Dyslexia, etc.
So maybe it is a set of co-incidences, or maybe it is some "higher force" but it is really weird that all of the sudden I have gone from never hearing about it to being given a book to read, shown exercises and hearing about a successful program already being run in Australia all in the space of one week.
Or maybe all of this reading and research has made me lose any sanity I had left.
What do you think?
