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When did you know something was wrong? (From a group post.)
- Jan 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM
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I knew when she was born.
I do not have a vast knowledge of babies but I have great instincts. My first daughter arrived eyes open, hollering, ready to grab the world by the shorthairs! Courtney barely wimpered and when I finally saw her face it was like half the lights were on and no one was home. SCARY! Since she was a c-section after a couple days of hell AND born with a surprise cleft, everyone assumed I was going thru post partum b.s. and kept telling me I was wrong. When she didn't roll over, sit up, or anything else within at least a few months of average, this only confirmed things for me but everyone else blamed it on her having been in arm restraints after surgeries (for the cleft) and having to be on her back. Mind you, whenever she could, she slept and played on her tummy. Against the rules, but I have had 2 babies now who can't sleep on their backs due to gas. (She spent most of her arm restraint time sleeping in her swing.)
Anywho, but the time she was 14 months her dad was getting on board with realizing she wasn't typical and finally by 21 months her ped got a clue. We've since fired that idiot. She's far-sighted, needed glasses, and he thinks vision therapy is "hooey". I want to rip his "hooey" glasses off his face and deck him!
If only I had known parents can refer their children to Early Intervention. It was mentioned to me at Shriners Hospital when she was 5 months but it sounded like a worst case scenario way of rescuing a child from idiot parents... INTERVENTION? Why do they have to call it that? Gives it a very negative connotation.
I do not have a vast knowledge of babies but I have great instincts. My first daughter arrived eyes open, hollering, ready to grab the world by the shorthairs! Courtney barely wimpered and when I finally saw her face it was like half the lights were on and no one was home. SCARY! Since she was a c-section after a couple days of hell AND born with a surprise cleft, everyone assumed I was going thru post partum b.s. and kept telling me I was wrong. When she didn't roll over, sit up, or anything else within at least a few months of average, this only confirmed things for me but everyone else blamed it on her having been in arm restraints after surgeries (for the cleft) and having to be on her back. Mind you, whenever she could, she slept and played on her tummy. Against the rules, but I have had 2 babies now who can't sleep on their backs due to gas. (She spent most of her arm restraint time sleeping in her swing.)
Anywho, but the time she was 14 months her dad was getting on board with realizing she wasn't typical and finally by 21 months her ped got a clue. We've since fired that idiot. She's far-sighted, needed glasses, and he thinks vision therapy is "hooey". I want to rip his "hooey" glasses off his face and deck him!
If only I had known parents can refer their children to Early Intervention. It was mentioned to me at Shriners Hospital when she was 5 months but it sounded like a worst case scenario way of rescuing a child from idiot parents... INTERVENTION? Why do they have to call it that? Gives it a very negative connotation.
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