u/FoodieNurse247

My son has made slow but steady speech progress - we are at what I’d count as 15 consistent words. Randomly has said others and will copy back a few but 10-15 he uses on a regular basis. We did get him evaluated for private speech and they did recommend it (they’d recommend it to anyone lol they can’t even give me the copy of the actual assessment showing his scores), so we will be starting in September. But every single day on Facebook there’s another post of “anyone else have a kid speaking in 3-4 word sentences?!” “Anyone else have a kid who knows their entire alphabet and can count to 10 or 20?!” Literally I’m impressed if my son gets me the correct colored crayon when I ask. I have days where I’m happy with how he’s doing and then others where I’m like “what am I doing wrong for him to not be speaking more”.

Ok I’m editing to add - the correct crayon thing is like a once in a blue moon, and literally when it’s a blue crayon. He cannot identify colors in any other sense so he’s definitely not ahead with that just wanted to clarify

My son is in fulltime daycare. The last few days from the minute he gets home he’s throwing himself backward, screaming crying red in the face, literally just an inconsolable mess essentially until his nighttime milk and bedtime. He is teething his bottom two canines but none of his other teeth caused him to act like this not even his molars so idk if I can say it’s that. I asked daycare today if he’s been okay and they were like “literally he’s happy all day”. No fits at all. We get home and he is literally throwing himself back out of my arms. He doesn’t have many words (only like 10-15) so can’t tell me really what he wants or needs, and I feel sooooooo lost. I just gave him Motrin because I have no clue if this is pain related. But is this a phase? Is this him bottling up his emotions for once he’s home? I’m so lost and wish I could help him and also nervous if this is a new phase that’s here to stay.

Please no comments of “my baby is the opposite and 90th+ percentile!,” I know you mean well but in this situation it truly does not make me feel any better.

I just had my first growth scan and baby’s head circumference dropped from 25th percentile to 4th percentile. This literally made me freak out. BPD went from 34th to 24th. The MFM said “nope no worry it’s still fine!”

Anyone else have a baby measuring with a smaller head? I can’t help but now worry for the next 4 weeks until my next scan because I’m terrified of brain issues and it’s bringing up a lot of concern for me. My first has a rare neurodegenerative condition. I did CVS with WGS for this pregnancy so realistically any genetic cause should’ve been discovered if it existed but I’m aware of the world of genetics and how so many things can’t be diagnosed yet, or I worry about CMV or any other random brain development issue. Help 😫

My son is dairy egg and soy intolerant. We have passed baked milk, melted butter, and melted cheese, and are on the yogurt step. Is it normal at this age to still have like softer poop? Or would that be considered “loose” at this age? He had to have his onesie changed at school today because he had a huge poop that when they laid him down it came out the back of the diaper and got on his shirt. She said it was soft. He’s been having days where he goes once and it’s like this exactly, huge amount and softer, and other days he goes like 3x maybe even 4 but they’re all more “solid” and smaller amounts. Is this consistency normal or should I be taking this as still a possible intolerance at this stage?? Help!

My son is 16.5 months. He has a list of things he does that is completely on track. However, I’ve recently noticed that his playing is very repetitive. He can have a bottle of bubbles and sit there and just open and close the bubbles screwing the lid on and off for 10 minutes straight. He can sit and take off his shoes and put them back on (or moreso attempt to and I’ll help) for 15 minutes. He’s been sitting playing with an open empty bubble container, a bubble wand, and a little toy for 15 minutes straight now and doing the same routine of tapping the toy, then tapping the empty bubble container and just repeating back and forth. his cousins all left to go play elsewhere and he’s still sitting there alone. At home he likes to place items into the play microwave, close the door, will open it, take it out, close the door, repeat. Usually I can remove him from these things but the last two days has been meltdowns for up to 5 minutes if I stop him. He does stop to check in - make sure me or someone else is still nearby. I ask him if he wants to come do something else and he will shake his head no. Eventually he gets tired of the thing if I don’t stop him and will hand me it and say “done”. I feel like I’ve never witnessed a kid play like this before so I feel as though it can’t be “normal”. He has other signs that have me keeping a close eye but this is concerning in general, right?

Hello, I had a CVS done at 12+5 four weeks ago, I got karyotype back after a week, microarray a week after that, and now it’s been 2 more weeks with 0 word on results of the whole genome sequence. I emailed my genetic counselor and left a message with 0 response. The WGS was sent to Columbia (NYC) for analysis. With my second pregnancy I feel like it came back so much faster. Yesterday was exactly 4 weeks since the CVS. Is this a situation where longer is bad news because maybe they found something they need to further analyze? This has been the most stressful time waiting.

Hello, I had a CVS done at 12+5 four weeks ago, I got karyotype back after a week, microarray a week after that, and now it’s been 2 more weeks with 0 word on results of the whole genome sequence. I emailed my genetic counselor and left a message with 0 response. The WGS was sent to Columbia (NYC) for analysis. With my second pregnancy I feel like it came back so much faster. Yesterday was exactly 4 weeks since the CVS. Is this a situation where longer is bad news because maybe they found something they need to further analyze? This has been the most stressful time waiting.

Hi everyone, I’ve posted here multiple times in the past earlier with this pregnancy with concerns about my hcg and then heart rate on early scan. I’ve since had a negative NIPT and normal NT scan since then, and a heart rate found on Doppler one week ago at 15+5 (was told “heart rate is 150s” after she listened for like 5 seconds tops), however I’m still not feeling ANY signs of movement. Like no taps, no bubbles, no swishes, nothing. I had thought my 2nd was a posterior placenta but I looked back and my 12+5 week scan showed anterior. I felt him kicking me like crazy starting at 14/15 weeks. This time my placenta is anterior again but it’s worrying me to feel absolutely nothing yet. I am still waiting on more expansive genetic results from a CVS I did 4 weeks ago today (personal decision due to my first having a rare disease that wasn’t inherited), and so I think some of my anxiety is around also still not having the full genetic picture if shes healthy. Just curious if any second + time moms felt subsequent babies later on.

I know it’s a sensory thing but short of only offering a few bites at a time is there anything else I can do? Or just hope he grows out of it? He also still will try to put non food items in his mouth like at a party today he kept trying to put legos in this mouth and the more I tried to correct him the more it was a game to him. He’s a good eater which I’m grateful for and he’s never choked even with stuffing his mouth so much but it just stresses me out lol

I just typed out a whole thing and it deleted LOL. So basically my son has been waving since 12 months, but it was always like a hand flapping wave, but whatever that’s fine he understood what the gesture meant and when to wave hi and bye. Now for the last few weeks, whenever he waves he is doing the typical “open close” of his hand, but his palm is facing him instead of facing out. I thought it looked so cute but naturally I decided to google if this was a “typical” thing before figuring out to flip your hand outward. Everything that comes up is having waving toward oneself is a sign of autism because they copy the motion exactly as they see it vs understanding that they have to turn their hand out too.

So naturally coming here to see if any of your littles had a phase of waving toward themselves? Is it truly that worrisome? I feel like I always have these little concerns about my son and have since he was really little, and I’m constantly on the fence of wondering if he may be autistic or not (not much speech at all only like 3 words, he gestures, knows his body parts, but then does “stim” occasionally and does not know some items I feel like he should like ball etc so idk truly lol) . Overall I know it’s truly too early but little signs here and there still have me keeping my eyes out (we have a dev pedi for my oldest that already said she’d gladly eval him if I wanted, but to not do it too soon just to waste our time for him to clearly not get any diagnosis from being too young).

My 15 month old has always been “late” to the speech type milestones - babbled right at the cusp of 9 months and then didn’t really start varied babbling until after 12 months. Now at 15 months he has 2 solid words “done” and “down”. It seems like he’s starting to understand “dada” and “mama” more but not enough for me to actually consider them words and not babble. I know this falls right on the cusp of the milestone for 15 months. Pediatrician has 0 worries and said we will revisit at 18 months. My insurance won’t cover speech until 18 months anyway and my state EI is not free and quite honestly horrible quality for the cost, and I’m not convinced he’d qualify anyway due to his receptive language being appropriate. Wanted to see if anyone had a child who had their speech bloom a little later and caught up!

My son finally just had his 15 month appointment around 10 days late. He only has 2-3 consistent words with maybe 1-2 more emerging. “Down” and “done” are the two consistent. Dada is used for everything but I can’t say for sure if he attaches it to his dad. And Mama and “up” are starting to seem more consistent. He has 5 signs that he uses independently - more, eat, yes, open, please. His receptive language is on target from what I understand. The pedi said he’s “right on the cusp” and that it’s okay right now. I feel like a sitting duck though? Because our state EI is not free and of TERRIBLE quality, I’m not going to rely on qualifying for their services right now. My insurance won’t pay for speech until 18 months. I cannot afford OOP costs for speech right now. So I feel like I’m failing him or doing him a disservice by just waiting another 3 months. Anyone else in a similar boat with not many words still?