...At the Children's Rehabilitation Centre...
This is to confirm in writing our request for additional Podee® Baby Bottles. At the Children's Rehabilitation Centre, our clientele include children with celebral palsy, developmental delay, spina bifida, and neuromotor and neuromuscular conditions. The Occupational Therapy Department is active helping parents assist children who have difficulties in feeding, and in this regard, we have found your Podee® Bottle extremely useful in promoting transition from the baby bottle to straw drinking, which is an efficient system of getting liquids into a child with neuromotor incoordination. In particular, one young man who has not been able to be weaned from drinking from a baby bottle and is now almost five years old, using the [Podee®] baby bottle we were able to now have him drinking from a straw without the use of the baby bottle.
Any sample bottles you can send would be greatly appreciated. As well, we would [like] any catalogues of other products you have, and the availability to order additional bottles and/or any of the other products you sell in the future.
Sincerely, Lucy Miller, B.Sc., O.T. (C), Director, Occupational Therapy Dept.
...Spinal Muscular Atrophy...
I normally don't write companies about their products, but I felt compelled to tell you just how much your product has meant to our family.
My 14-month-old son was diagnosed several months ago with Spinal Muscular Atrophy. This awful disease has prevented him from having the independence he obviously desires.
For his first year of life he was mostly breastfed. I was unable to skip the bottle and use a cup with him because his muscles just will not allow him to hold anything at an angle. The simple weight of a cup or bottle is too much for him. Unfortunatley, I had to hold a bottle for him, just as one would for a newborn.
Although I loved the closeness, I longed to see my little boy feed himself. With a three-year-old besides, I also needed some time!
I stumbled upon your product sheerly by accident. I found it at a yardsale, still in it's original packaging!! I never knew there was such a thing.
Jackson is seen by several doctors, therapists, and even a nutritionist. They think this bottle is the perfect thing for him and wonder why they have never seen this product before.
On a whim, I decided to see if you had a website, and therefore I couldn't resist sending this note. I hope other parents with children of special needs can learn of this very special product. It is the only means of self-feeding my son has. It literally has changed my schedule for the better! I can now leave the house with my son to go on an errand and know that he can eat in his stroller by himself. No more searching for a place to sit and hold him!
It;s nice to have free hands to do the dishes and laundry!
Thanks so much. I must obtain another one!!!!!!
...my handicapped daughter...
Please direct this letter to your marketing organization. I use your bottle with my handicapped daughter who cannot use her hands to hold a cup to drink from. Your product has been a life-saver. You may consider marketing through Exceptional Parent Magazine or other publications targeted to specific disabilities. I am posting your number at our website for Rett Syndrome (name of my daughter's disability) as I believe it may help many of these girls.
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