Hello For my son,
I justed wanted to let you know that you are not alone. I too have a child with delays. My daughter was born with low muscle tone. She is 15months. She has a droopy eye lid she had sugery on at the clinic at 8 months old. at that time she had a normal MRI. In addition she had 2 EEGs that were normal. She had some genitic testing done that also came back normal. She goes to pt/ot once a week. She can sit on her own, but doesnt walk or crawl and only makes aww sounds. I have tried to post questions on this board, but it is always full. That is great that your son is progressing in theopy. It is so hard sometimes to see friends children walking and crawling and my daughter has to stuggle to stay sitting up. I know it could be alot worse and I know I am blessed to have her. I am thankful for the advanced in medicine today that these kids have a fighting chance. I pray that your son keeps getting better. good luck
Your son's case is quite complicated starting with his delivery. There are a number of possible reasons why he is delayed: the difficult labor and delivery, the rough time he went through immediately after birth, metabolic or genetic causes, etc... Unfortunately, there's nothing in the post that really stands out for one specific cause for his symptoms/delay (meaning there;s certain things that point to one particular disease or another, but aren't mentioned in your post - for instance down's syndrome children have particular facial features that make them easily recognizable). Glad that he is making great strides in PT. As for the workup thus far, it's very difficult to read an infant;s brain MRI and should be done so by a pediatric neuroradiologist. If you've not already done so, consider a major academic pediatric hospital where they have specialists and state of the art equipment. His continual improvement is encouraging and it sounds like you're doing the best that you can for him. Good luck to you and your son.