Developmental Delays - intro
Mar 4, 2015 20:50:03 GMT -5
Post by djtippietoes on Mar 4, 2015 20:50:03 GMT -5
I've posted on the SN board a couple of times, but I'm a newbie here. A little bit of backstory - I had a pretty rough pregnancy. I had a high level of free-beta HCG on my quad screen which resulted in a 1/28 risk of Down Syndrome. I had an amnio and it was ruled out. Then around the beginning of my third trimester, my son was discovered to be IUGR. I also had some issues with low fluid. My son was born at 37 weeks and was 4 lbs, 15 oz. He did not have any NICU time. He is now 13 months old.
He had a real old man look to him at first. He just didn't look like other babies. He had a few other curiosities too - slight syndactyly of his second and third toes was the primary one. He's always had issues gaining weight and has been in the 2% or less his entire life. His lack of growth plus his features led his pediatrician to suggest a microarray, which we did at 4 months and it came back normal. We also met with a geneticist who told us that he didn't really see anything that stood out to him and didn't really even know what he'd test him for. As he got older, he began to lose his curious features and look more like a typical cute baby.
He's always been on the slow side of normal with his milestones. Sitting up at 7 months. Crawling at 9 months. Pulling up at 11 months. Not walking or talking yet. And while all of that is normal, I see him with other babies his age and see how they just seem more advanced. So I had our state's Early Intervention program evaluate him (yesterday) and it turns out that he has significant delays in certain areas - primarily motor skills, communication and feeding. He scored within the normal range for cognition and personal/social skills.
So we still have no diagnosis and I have no idea if there's anything to diagnose but I guess we're about to go down the Early Intervention therapies road, so I thought I'd intro here to meet others who are going through this or have in the past.
Hello!
He had a real old man look to him at first. He just didn't look like other babies. He had a few other curiosities too - slight syndactyly of his second and third toes was the primary one. He's always had issues gaining weight and has been in the 2% or less his entire life. His lack of growth plus his features led his pediatrician to suggest a microarray, which we did at 4 months and it came back normal. We also met with a geneticist who told us that he didn't really see anything that stood out to him and didn't really even know what he'd test him for. As he got older, he began to lose his curious features and look more like a typical cute baby.
He's always been on the slow side of normal with his milestones. Sitting up at 7 months. Crawling at 9 months. Pulling up at 11 months. Not walking or talking yet. And while all of that is normal, I see him with other babies his age and see how they just seem more advanced. So I had our state's Early Intervention program evaluate him (yesterday) and it turns out that he has significant delays in certain areas - primarily motor skills, communication and feeding. He scored within the normal range for cognition and personal/social skills.
So we still have no diagnosis and I have no idea if there's anything to diagnose but I guess we're about to go down the Early Intervention therapies road, so I thought I'd intro here to meet others who are going through this or have in the past.
Hello!
