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Sam Primorano

Sam Primorano

Sam Primerano is a registered nurse and Adelaide-based neurodivergent mother of three young children who appears as a guest on The Empowered Parent with Dana Baltutis, speaking about sensory needs and neurodivergent parenting.

Aug 20, 2026

3:39
remember
3:39
being like, what's – What's going on? What's going on? Have I done something in terms of his security, his sense of security? And then he'd also, I remember I used to always whinge that he was so distracted with breastfeeding.
3:51
I couldn't breastfeed him in public because he would just be like off the breast and looking all around.
3:56
Yeah.
3:57
And we were at this playgroup and he was around 11 months and he was so overwhelmed, so overwhelmed that he wanted to be at my breast for that comfort, for that reassurance.
4:09
And I look back now and I'm like, oh, you know, that was part of his experience of...
4:18
His sensory sensitivities.

7 MINS LATER

11:25
So do you think when you used to go to your parent groups and you'd see other parents parenting their kids a certain way, did you feel like you had to... adapt your parenting style to your kids or what did you think of your parenting style? Did that affect

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