robocoastie
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It sounds like you might simply have the vest on too tight. We were taught for our hill-rom one that we should be able to put our hand just between the vest and her. She's also testing you.
Our 4 year old uses the Hill-Rom and over 20 minutes goes from 10 to 14. She can handle those settings but its a fight to get her to start. Once it's begun she's usually fine and we'll play a game or watch cartoons during it but to just start she fights it or says "later...". Often it turns into a wrestling match to get it on her. Sometimes bribes work but not like they did when she was 2 and 3. Bribery and "goody/reward charts" are absolutely useless now. The main reason they are so useless is they have no teeth - she HAS to do her vest. A behavior/reward chart is likely fine for things like cleaning their room and other things that aren't necessities but we've found are useless for anything else.
The thing I'm completely drained from is the fights over the vest and nebullizer has led her to be super defiant at other issues as well. Some of that is personality, her mother and her are worse than two sisters sometimes but I'm convinced the vest/treatment situation has made that side of her progress far far earlier than she normally would have. She's been ahead of her age in other areas but why oh why did this one have to manifest early too?
signed,
absolutely drained
It sounds like you might simply have the vest on too tight. We were taught for our hill-rom one that we should be able to put our hand just between the vest and her. She's also testing you.
Our 4 year old uses the Hill-Rom and over 20 minutes goes from 10 to 14. She can handle those settings but its a fight to get her to start. Once it's begun she's usually fine and we'll play a game or watch cartoons during it but to just start she fights it or says "later...". Often it turns into a wrestling match to get it on her. Sometimes bribes work but not like they did when she was 2 and 3. Bribery and "goody/reward charts" are absolutely useless now. The main reason they are so useless is they have no teeth - she HAS to do her vest. A behavior/reward chart is likely fine for things like cleaning their room and other things that aren't necessities but we've found are useless for anything else.
The thing I'm completely drained from is the fights over the vest and nebullizer has led her to be super defiant at other issues as well. Some of that is personality, her mother and her are worse than two sisters sometimes but I'm convinced the vest/treatment situation has made that side of her progress far far earlier than she normally would have. She's been ahead of her age in other areas but why oh why did this one have to manifest early too?
signed,
absolutely drained