u/IndependentWestern30

My older son is 27 months and it’s pretty clear he’s on the spectrum. Not yet diagnosed because he’s extremely verbal and can converse, but he’ll likely get a level 1 diagnosis in the next few years. He’s currently in OT for sensory seeking behavior and vestibular insecurities. He didn’t point until 20 months and I knew the second that milestone was missed at 12 months that something was up. He was an EXTREMELY colicky baby up until 7 months or so.

My second is the happiest little guy ever. God he is so smiley and joyful to be around. Just constantly smiling at me and his dad. I was in pure bliss for the first 6-7 months because he was such a happy baby and I didn’t experience that with my older son.

Now that he’s 7 months, I’m starting to notice he’s not yet doing back and forth noises with me, or mimicking me. His name response is 50-50. My gut was right about my older son, and now I’m wondering about my second.

It’s completely taken away the joy of my second which I tried so hard to avoid, but I don’t know how to not focus on it. This sucks and I’m sad.

Hi all. My son is 26 months. He was evaluated for ASD at 20 months and did not meet the criteria at the time. He is highly verbal and can speak in sentences. He does use a lot of scripts but also has lots of novel speech. He can answer questions and is all in all a very lovable, engaged little boy. We plan to have him reevaluated around 3.

He has an excellent nanny with an ABA background and she’s brought about tremendous growth in him. However one thing we’ve noticed is his growing obsession with scooping and dumping. He loves to fill containers with objects, water, beans, sand, etc, and dump it out. He can find opportunities to do this in any setting. Shovel and pale at the beach, rolling play doh into balls and dumping it into his toy dump trucks, playing in the sink by filling water and dumping it out, the list goes on. He could truly do this all day long if I allowed it.

He’s making so much progress in his communication, interests, and skills. I worry that this scoop and dump obsession is going to take over. I want to encourage it because I feel like it’s a very soothing activity for him, but how do I keep it from getting out of hand? Any tips?

Hi all,

First, I know, trust my son's doctors. I'm doing that, I plan to continue doing that, but I'm a mom, and my son is my world, so even when doctors try to be reassuring... I'm never really at peace.

My 5 month old son was diagnosed with HCM (MYBPC3- sarcomeric) at 2 weeks old. He is currently asymptomatic and non-obstructive, with a z score of 6. We've had a few scans at the Childrens Hospital, and they have gone "well." Good ejection fraction, good functioning, we have not started any type of intervention or beta blockers. Overall I was feeling pretty good about things (as good as I can).

We had his proBNP tested through bloodwork... it was 5,000. Yes 5,000. What the fuck. His cardiac team keeps saying no worries, we expected it to be high, everythings fine, he's doing well. Well thats not what the internet says. The internet says this is pointing to heart failure and his heart deteriorating. I'm having a really hard time reconciling this insane BNP score with what I thought his current state was. I'm devastated and can't sleep at night. What the fuck... does anyone have experience with this? Can anyone say something reassuring? I'm just upset. He's the happiest little baby and with this score I feel like a bomb was dropped on my head.

My son is 24 months. He's exploded in development over the past few months. At 18 months he scored about a 7 on the MCHAT and we had him evaluated for ASD. He didn't meet the criteria for a diagnosis. He now scores a 0-1 on the MCHAT at 24 months and has absolutely exploded verbally, socially, and he has a ton of interests and little hobbies. I'm obviously exceptionally proud of him, but there's a few things I continue to keep my eye on.

I know that the stereotypical echolalia red flag is when a toddler may say "do you want a cookie?" when they are requesting a cookie. My son doesn't do that, but he does have a lot of canned phrases he uses to make his points. He has plenty of examples of and uses of his own novel speech, but he also has many scripted phrases, for correct contexts. For example "that makes mama really sad" when I tell him no and he gets upset, or "watch 5 minutes of songs" when he wants to watch the Wiggles on tv, or "help me push the button" when he wants to press the garage button, or "I feel sad" when he's upset. How normal is this for a toddler? They are used daily. It's hard because he is capable of creating his own sentences (albeit, toddler sentences), so I'm never sure what to think. I don't have any experience with toddlers.

I'm on day 4 for both and like clock work, my stomach starts to ache after lunch. It's always fine overnight and after breakfast. But I'm in pain every day from about noon until 7 pm. Everything I've read says 2-4 days until you feel major pain relief.