u/crashhhyears

I don’t know why I’ve had a resurgence in anxiety about speech. I know animal sounds count and signs count but I’m wondering if they count if I have to prompt her to say the words

She says
Ball
Hi
Dog
Nay for horse
Cuck for chicken
Shhhh for shoe
Moo for cow
Nana
Mama
Dada
Up
Down
All done
Wawa

However, she only says mama, dada, ball and dog unprompted and regularly. As in she points to it and says dog if she sees a dog. Sometimes she says “all done” if she is done but usually she just signs it. She’s beginning to say da for down and up for wanting to get up but I’m not 100% sure of this. She will say hi when she looks at herself in the mirror and sometimes and sometimes to me and dad.

Most of the time though, I have to ask her what is this to get her to say it, like she doesn’t look at a cow and say moo, I have to say, what does a cow say

She also used to say yes and na for no and nod/shake head but now she only shakes her head or nods yes to mean yes and no.

Is any of this concerning? Would she qualify for services if I were to get her evaluated? Her receptive language is very good and she meets all physical milestones

Hoping maybe some SLPs could chime in. I don’t know why I’ve had a resurgence in worrying about speech. I know animal sounds count and signs count but I’m wondering if they count if I have to prompt her to say the words

My almost 16 mo old says
Ball
Hi
Dog
Nay for horse
Cuck for chicken
Shhhh for shoe
Moo for cow
Nana
Mama
Dada
Up
Down
All done
Wawa

However, she only says mama, dada, ball and dog unprompted and regularly. As in she points to it and says dog if she sees a dog. Sometimes she says “all done” if she is done but usually she just signs it. She’s beginning to say da for down and up for wanting to get up but I’m not 100% sure of this. She will say hi when she looks at herself in the mirror and sometimes and sometimes to me and dad.

Most of the time though, I have to ask her what is this to get her to say it, like she doesn’t look at a cow and say moo, I have to say, what does a cow say

She also used to say yes and na for no and nod/shake head but now she only shakes her head or nods yes to mean yes and no.

Is any of this concerning?

So we live right across the street from a huge park with a ton of activities and a busy street about 2 blocks away with a ton of shops. For the past couple of months, I’ve been taking my daughter out without the stroller and letting her walk with me or I carry her if she doesn’t want to walk. I wear a tush baby side carrier thing that she sits on for support

Lately, she has been trying to get out of the carrier and then not wanting to walk and laying on the ground and throwing a tantrum. Then I carry her back up, she wants to walk again, she walks a little then wants to be carried. Especially if she wants to see a dog, she’ll point to the dog, get all excited and want to walk but as the dog and owner approaches she gets scared and wants back on the carrier

Just curious, if you guys take baby out without a stroller and are able to just walk with baby along the street or park the entire time (while being carried occasionally).

She’s been walking for 3 mo, walks all the time at home but seems lately doesn’t want to walk outside as much unless we’re at the playground. I’m a first time mom so have no idea. I’d love constructive criticism on this.

Somehow I was unaware that by this age, most toddlers are able to go to sleep on their own without being rocked. I’ve been rocking my daughter every night and honestly it’s one of my favorite things to do, but apparently I should be teaching her to fall asleep on her own?

Just a show of hands, is this concerning - not concerning as in very serious, panic about it, but is this something I should seek to change?

She can fall asleep on her own if very tired at night. Actually a few weeks ago, we were at my parents’ house and they had a toddler bed for her and somehow we were able to put her down without being rocked.

Generally at home, if I put her down without rocking, it’s met with her chilling for a few minutes then screaming and crying. Once I rock her, she’s asleep in like 5-10 minutes.

I am somewhat sure that currently rotavirus is in our house. My partner and I both have been having to go to the bathroom every couple of hours for the last two days. I have stomach cramps. No vomiting. Baby (15 mo) has had one bout of diarrhea, now seemingly fine. No vomiting for her either. Everything else is normal as well.

She is vaccinated so makes sense why she’s not getting these symptoms, or just less severe symptoms. Wondering if this has been the case for anyone else where baby doesn’t get symptoms and parents do. I feel like I must have been vaccinated as a child?? We were all traveling via plane 2ish days before this hit.

Anyways…this is a walk in the park compared to norovirus that we had a month ago. No symptoms for baby either. Just me and dad.

So far this spring, I’ve had Covid, norovirus and rotavirus or whatever this is. Baby either did not get it or was asymptomatic although she did get roseola, runny nose and fever for a few days. This me and my partner did not get.

Is this just par for the course with having kids? She’s not in daycare, but we go out often and do lots of baby classes and playground almost every day. None of us got sick at all during the winter and now looks like we are making up for lost time this spring. I usually get sick like once every two years so this is totally new territory. I feel like no one believes me at work anymore 😂

I am somewhat sure that currently rotavirus is in our house. My partner and I both have been having to go to the bathroom every couple of hours for the last two days. I have stomach cramps. No vomiting. Baby (15 mo) has had one bout of diarrhea, then now seemingly fine. No vomiting for her either. Everything else is normal as well.

She is vaccinated so makes sense why she’s not getting these symptoms, or just less severe symptoms. Wondering if this has been the case for anyone else where baby doesn’t get symptoms and parents do. I feel like I must have been vaccinated as a child?? We were all traveling via plane 2ish days before this hit.

Anyways…this is a walk in the park compared to norovirus that we had a month ago. No symptoms for baby either. Just me and dad.

So far this spring, I’ve had Covid, norovirus and rotavirus or whatever this is. Baby either did not get it or was asymptomatic although she did get roseola, runny nose and fever for a few days. This I did not get.

Is this normal? She’s not in daycare, but we go out often and do lots of baby classes and playground almost every day. We didn’t get sick at all during the winter and now looks like we are making up for lost time this Spring.

Tw: throw up.

Edit: not really depressed, more easily irritable

I am on 200mg for OCD and anxiety but mostly OCD. Long story short, my entire household minus my toddler (somehow) got hit with norovirus a few of weeks ago. For almost a week, I couldn’t even hold down pills. Would just immediately throw up. So just decided fuck it, what’s the point. I mean I also just felt physically awful and likely not thinking clearly. Norovirus is truly horrible!

Anyways, the first week or two I felt really good. I have exclusively health anxiety and OCD and even when by toddler got sick a week after I got norovirus, I was totally chill. So I thought maybe this WAS just postpartum and now my hormones have changed so I don’t need it. I definitely didn’t have this degree of anxiety/ocd before giving birth, so I thought this was plausible?

This week I just feel super anxious and a little depressed. I never had too much depression even during the worst postpartum anxiety (the depression was BECAUSE of the anxiety, if I didn’t have an anxiety spiral, I wasn’t depressed).

I have an appt with my psychiatrist this week. I guess I’m just talking out loud here. Any similar experiences, advice, thoughts welcome

To preface, doctor isn’t concerned at all but would like to hear from parents to fully alleviate my fixation into this. I have anxiety and OCD that is pretty easily triggered

Is it normal to feel a few minuscule bead like lymph nodes like the size of one of those silica packet beads (or like bean bag bead size) along toddler’s groin area? I can’t think of anything else that’s similar haha. Like the beads in a normal sized stuffed animal.

They move, have to press down kinda hard to feel. One of them is ever so slightly bigger but def smaller than a cm

Just had 15 mo appt. My daughter’s hemoglobin dropped to 11.3 from 12.1 in 2 months. Is this a big deal? She was eating less and drinking lots of milk for the last week due to her being sick. But her appetite has been back for the last day since she’s recovering. Doctor not worried, said to do leafy greens more.

My daughter hates veggies haha but she does eat red meat a few times a week and Cheerios. Doctor said no need to drop whole milk levels (she drinks 16 oz). She eats a lot of cheese too. Big dairy fan

Her growth chart is perfect though in terms of height, weight, head size!

Edit so no one thinks they need to check hemoglobin every visit. There is no specific reason we checked other than I am always anxious about hemoglobin and it’s not stressful on baby so they take it for me!

Just a rant and a question. Has anyone taken a benzo for anxiety daily? It’s the only thing that helps my anxiety. I am prescribed Zoloft 200mg for my ocd. I get 10 lowest dose lorazepam pills a month to take as needed, which is what I have been doing. I honestly can’t tell if the Zoloft is helping or not but lorazepam does for sure. I do only take it if I am very very anxious.

As I type this it just makes me sad my mental health has gotten to this point. I was never anxious before I was pregnant. Life was so easy and carefree all the time. Really had nothing to care about deeply and I probably liked it that way. That’s all changed - I can’t express in words how much I love my daughter and how hard it’s been worrying constantly since even before she was born.

I mostly struggle with “needing to know for sure,” which is actually the title of the book my psychiatrist told me to read. I need to know for sure my daughter will always be ok and I don’t know that and it just kills me. I am an accountant and I say things to myself at work like, oh if this reconciliation balances on the first try, everything will be ok. Then I tell myself don’t have these intrusive thoughts about one random thing leading to another.

Okay, maybe I did have ocd/anxiety but back then it was “I need to know for sure the person who does my eyebrow shaping is good so even though I moved cities, I will still fly 800 miles regularly to go to the same person, even if I’m just there overnight, even if I really technically shouldn’t spend this money.”

I also immediately thought if someone doesn’t respond to my text or call immediately, they’ve died. This only applies to be I am really close with and/or love. Like my mom, I’m not close with but if I can’t reach her I can’t sleep until I know for sure she is okay. She lied to me about my grandfather dying and convinced me he was still alive, so we have our issues, she probably played no small role in my anxiety growing up and now. But I still worried about her.

So I take back my statement about not having anxiety before. Still, every old anxiety pales in comparison with worrying about my baby. My eyebrow lady didn’t do a good job on our last appt and I didn’t even care.

I have so much fun with my baby when i am not this anxious, which believe it or not is most of the time. I only get anxious when there is something I’ve decided to fixate on. We go everywhere together. I love taking her out for mommy and baby lunch dates over the weekend and then going to the park. Love just spending an average day with her doing average things around the neighborhood and just watching her take in everything. She’s my little sweetie.

I’m 15 mo postpartum and still a basket case in terms of anxiety, though the anxiety focus shifts as my daughter ages. First it was seizures, then severe autism, then regressive disorders and now cancer. This one scares me because cancer doesn’t age out and I’m feeling so stuck. She just had her first fever with runny nose and cough that likely ended up to be roseola, the rash faded “on time” but I still just worry. Wish I could just take lorazepam every day.

Despite it all, the joy of being her mom is worth everything. Just wish I could figure this anxiety out. My daughter deserves a strong mom who doesn’t freak out at every rash or every runny nose or checks for lymph nodes getting hard every freaking day, sometimes twice, often thrice, really once an hour. It’s so sad.

Her dad is the complete opposite of me and never notices anything. Worst part is he thinks he is super sharp with an “eagle eye” that catches everything. He can’t even catch the fleas that were on the dog he once had. I told him your dog has fleas, the dog was sleeping with us in bed and now I itch. The dog also is itching herself. He said no you’re crazy. This is an example from the way past but is a really good description of our relationship.

Edit: I did just take a lorazepam so this is a little all over the place as it is also bedtime too