I wanted to ask if sensory issues are hereditary. My husband has sensory issues. I forgot to mention that before.
I don't know if they are but I know they are more a secondary issue, they usually come with someting else and that something else can be hereditary.
It's not that ADHD (for example) is a hyperactive disorder. It is a disorder that can (not aways) have a hypo-sensitive element to it. The hypo-sensitive would be a tag along.
The thing is, the brain is so flexible right now, at age 2, he may "grow out of it" so to speak where his development will fall into place...
That is why learning and understanding what to make of it and how to implement sensory integration techniques is nothing harmful.
Folks who want to say, "Don't label them..." but what are you doing by giving them different sensory input or avoiding unpleasant ones? You aren't harming them but helping them adjust. If he grows out of it, fine, if not- you got a jump on it.
There are two types, hypo-sensitive and hyper-sensitive, or a combo of both.
Folks will think hyper- sensitive means to be hyper but it's the opposite. It is getting overload where you can't handle it and withdraw, hide under a table, don't like to be touched, etc.
Hypo is where you can not get enough, so you run, jump, climb, etc to get that input you lack.
Children have to develop their central nervous system and some do naturally as it's meant to be but others have some bumps in the road, but they generally all catch up to each other by the time they start school.
If you think about it, we all have certain input we like and dislike and to each his own... some prefer certain tactical things that feel good, others smoke, and it's the hand to mouth action that is hard to break- smoking is a nicotine action first and foremost but it is also sensory input as well.
Certain things we do aid us in focusing our mind.
We all have our ways to integrate the input, but some children, generally those with neurological issues, have a tougher go at it. Autistic children can have it to a disabling degree.
The Out of Sync Child is a excellent book for every patent who has young children because it just gives you ideas on how to help the brain along in adjusting.
You have a infant and now is the time to give them different experiences and stimuli to help them develop normally because the brain is so, so flexible.
There is another book, The Child with Special Needs by Charles Greenspan and that book is awesome on teaching how to give babies the input they need to developed properly.
The thing is, the time to correct any issue that may exist, is before you even know there is one.