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Could this be Autism
My daughter is 14 months and has some odd behaviors. She makes good eye contact and smiles while making eye conact if she knows and likes you, but gets very upset and hard to sooth if she does not know you or does not like you. She cries alot and gets is this odd position (lays on her stomach, twist her body, and puts right foot over left foot while looking at the floor). We are unsure why she does this and thought it was stomach cramps, but now it seems like she does this when she is upset. She is delayed in talking and will not point at what she wants. She yells, cries, and gets in her position until you figure out what she wants. We are having a hard time with her and can't get an appointment with a Developemental Doctor until January. Any thoughts???
she went to one developmental pedi he told her ocd and anxiety because jen has a history of anxiety in her family so does the dad.she believes it i dont.but thats just me.
Heres a good website
http://www.firstsigns.org/healthydev/milestones.htm
Stanley Greenspan is the king of Autism intervention...he endorses this website..you will also find this website on the AutismSpeaks.org website
there is also the CDC website for childhood developmental milestones
http://www.firstsigns.org/healthydev/milestones.htm
Stanley Greenspan is the king of Autism intervention...he endorses this website..you will also find this website on the AutismSpeaks.org website
there is also the CDC website for childhood developmental milestones
Are you saying she is 23 months old and functioning at a 4 month old level?
Yes by 15 months DEFINITLEY should be pointing, clapping, showing, reaching, waving etc.
Is she not getting early intervention?
Yes by 15 months DEFINITLEY should be pointing, clapping, showing, reaching, waving etc.
Is she not getting early intervention?
woops sorry i meant whine and pull jen around her mom,i type to fast sometimes.
i was wondering if anyone thinks a 15 month should be able to gesture?and not just whine and pull me around.she is my friends daughter and she is now 23 months and is functioning at 4 months,she thinks she has ocd and anxiety.maybe im just being parinoid i just care about her.
All the info I have received has been really helpful. Your right, I need not to "jump the gun" and take it one day at a time. I think everyone is so much more aware of autism and doctors want to catch this early, so it's understandable to have me start the process and I need to do this open minded and not over react. Autism awareness was all over the news today, which is awesome!!! We all need to know and need to react if we see signs. The news said "ALL" children should be checked before turning two and I now agree.
To reply to your questions:
1.) Brynn's first due date was at the end of August, but was moved up to mid August. The birth mother was in a lot of pain due to gallstones and back pain, so the baby was taken earlier. She was a C-Section baby and I remember the doctor having a hard time getting her out because she was so high up. I was in the room with the birthmother and what felt like an hour was probable only 5 minutes, but they were having a hard time reaching Brynn. Other than that, Brynn was born on August 4th and everything seemed fine.
2.) We did take Brynn home from the hospital. Oh, Brynn was also jundis and stayed 6 days in the hospital, (under lights 24 hours a day, starting on day 3). I will say that Brynn has always been a "put me in my bed and leave me alone" baby! Never liked to be rocked. We always labeled her an independant and strong willed child, because as hard as we tried to make her a spoiled, bed baby, is as hard as she wanted to be put in her own bed to go to sleep. She sleep all night starting at 2 months. Brynn was a good baby, just a little stiff - hard to cuddle.
3.) Brynn seems to play with toys just fine. She always goes back to the same toys, but nothing seems odd to me when she is playing. She plays with a toy oven alot. Opening the door and putting small toys in and out of the oven. She does play with my sons cars and she rolls them on the the floor.
4.) I try to read books to her, but she can't stay still. Not interested in sitting still. I still try, but this is one of our problems with her. She is not a lap child and things need to be her way or she is screaming. She is hard to break. I guess a good example of this is when she gets shots, she screaming for the next hour after the shot is given. Not cries, screams! When she is mad, it's on :)
We do work with the sign for "more" with Brynn. I Love her to death, but she just loves to yell for her way! She does do something that looks like she is trying to sign (one hand flat and will tap the center of her hand with the other hand instead of tapping her finger tips together) about 30% of the time we ask. We reward her and are happy even if it is not perfect. I guess the other thing I can add is that she was late in sitting up. She did not sit up until she was almost 8 months, not because she was not strong, but because she did not want to be in that position (I guess). I would put her in the cool seats to help babies sit up and Brynn would buck until I took her back out. When I sat her up, she would cry and wiggle back down again. "STRONG WILLED"!
I have been working harder to give her more one on one time and more TLC. I am also going next week to have her hearing checked, then on to speech therapy as I wait for the other appointment in January.
Thank you again for all of your help.
Sincerely,
Nancy
To reply to your questions:
1.) Brynn's first due date was at the end of August, but was moved up to mid August. The birth mother was in a lot of pain due to gallstones and back pain, so the baby was taken earlier. She was a C-Section baby and I remember the doctor having a hard time getting her out because she was so high up. I was in the room with the birthmother and what felt like an hour was probable only 5 minutes, but they were having a hard time reaching Brynn. Other than that, Brynn was born on August 4th and everything seemed fine.
2.) We did take Brynn home from the hospital. Oh, Brynn was also jundis and stayed 6 days in the hospital, (under lights 24 hours a day, starting on day 3). I will say that Brynn has always been a "put me in my bed and leave me alone" baby! Never liked to be rocked. We always labeled her an independant and strong willed child, because as hard as we tried to make her a spoiled, bed baby, is as hard as she wanted to be put in her own bed to go to sleep. She sleep all night starting at 2 months. Brynn was a good baby, just a little stiff - hard to cuddle.
3.) Brynn seems to play with toys just fine. She always goes back to the same toys, but nothing seems odd to me when she is playing. She plays with a toy oven alot. Opening the door and putting small toys in and out of the oven. She does play with my sons cars and she rolls them on the the floor.
4.) I try to read books to her, but she can't stay still. Not interested in sitting still. I still try, but this is one of our problems with her. She is not a lap child and things need to be her way or she is screaming. She is hard to break. I guess a good example of this is when she gets shots, she screaming for the next hour after the shot is given. Not cries, screams! When she is mad, it's on :)
We do work with the sign for "more" with Brynn. I Love her to death, but she just loves to yell for her way! She does do something that looks like she is trying to sign (one hand flat and will tap the center of her hand with the other hand instead of tapping her finger tips together) about 30% of the time we ask. We reward her and are happy even if it is not perfect. I guess the other thing I can add is that she was late in sitting up. She did not sit up until she was almost 8 months, not because she was not strong, but because she did not want to be in that position (I guess). I would put her in the cool seats to help babies sit up and Brynn would buck until I took her back out. When I sat her up, she would cry and wiggle back down again. "STRONG WILLED"!
I have been working harder to give her more one on one time and more TLC. I am also going next week to have her hearing checked, then on to speech therapy as I wait for the other appointment in January.
Thank you again for all of your help.
Sincerely,
Nancy
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