Sensory issues

I have taken my senses for granted. I guess I knew that our senses are very important, but I have never appreciated sensory input like I have since having a little daughter with special needs. The problem we have on our hands, is, we have a little girl with the potential to scoot, crawl, and eventually walk....but not until we can help her learn to tolerate new sensations she has never experienced before. For example: her hands. She has probably never touched with her hands anything but her own skin and maybe the crib railing. So carpet probably feels like sandpaper to her hands. Most of the pictures we had seen of her she had her hands clasped together, like she was praying. The kids liked to think she was praying for a family with lots of brothers and sisters. But in reality,  the feel of her own hands clasped together brings her comfort I think. She still clasps her hands together when there is a lot of activity or stimulation. We have been trying to get her into the crawling position so she can start to bear weight on her hands and knees, and it almost seems excruciating to her when you force her palms down on the carpet or the mat. She cringes and cries and resists that kind of stimulation.

And she won't be able to eat solid foods until she can get used to the feeling in her mouth of new textures and tastes, and learn to want to put things in her mouth. It is all so foreign to her right now. So I am learning now why occupational therapy, physical therapy and speech therapy are all dependent on one another and go hand in hand. One of the experiments we tried the other night was "pudding therapy". Sounds fun huh?.......She HATED it!!! We put the pudding on her high chair tray, and she reluctantly reached for it. The minute it was on her fingers she pulled away and screamed, like she was being tortured. Eventually she rubbed it in her hair, thus the reason for the hair in the next video.....John tried warm water next. She liked water SO much better than pudding!