11 month old not sitting, crawling...

[jenlh]

My 11 month old is not sitting up on her own yet.  She can not pull her self up into a sitting position nor can she sit by her self if I sit her up.  She's not crawling, walking or standing.  She does roll very well though.  She also hasn't spoken any words yet(mamma, dadda...) It's almost as if she's an eight month old baby and not on her way to a year.  She was three weeks premature, but otherwise very healthy.  She hasn't even been sick yet.  I've increased her tummy time and have been paying extra special attention to her developement but am very conserned.  Could this be a real problem?

[mrsfoster]

Sounds familiar...My 13 month old was born at 41 weeks but a day later (after his vaccines) he started having seizures that doctors couldn't control at first. He stayed in the nicu for a month & was only diagnosed with seizure disorder, hypertonia, cross-eyes but even after countless tests (MRI's, EEG's, etc.) no one could find a reason for these issues. He is very delayed now, can't hold his head up straight, sit up, stand alone, crawl, etc. but he did start holding his bottle about 2 months ago (which I am so proud of!) & just recently started making "da-da" sounds & also sometimes will reach (up) for toys but we know he has a long way to go. No doctor will confirm (I don't trust, respect or believe them anyway) but my husband & I think it may be cerebral palsy & we have no idea what the future holds for him but I do know once we can master holding his head up, everything else will soon follow. We are constantly trying new things with him but hope maybe another family's experince will help us along. Please e-mail me if you can give ANY advice. It will be most appreciated. Thanks. ***@****

[bethcard]

please let me know the results. same issues with a baby i know- could help us, thanks

[bethcard]

did the doctors ever figure out why? I know someone whos baby has similar problems and baby is 13 months and no diagnosis wondering if it all turned out normal in the end or was a diagnosis made?

Thanks

[Sanchez2011]

My baby is the same way she is 11months and can't sit by her self,walk or craw she holds her bottle and rolls over but that's it she loves to be in her back a lot. She is having a MRI in two weeks to see what's the problem they said she might have cerebral palsy l hope she ok first god

[Sanchez2011]

My baby is the same way she is 11months and can't sit by her self,walk or craw she holds her bottle and rolls over but that's it she loves to be in her back a lot. She is having a MRI in two weeks to see what's the problem they said she might have cerebral palsy l hope she ok first god

[ShareandCare]

My daughter was born 4 weeks early due to the doctors telling us that her abdomen region wasn't growing any more.  We scheduled her to be born on May 1st of 2009.  Shortly after she was born at 4 months old our pediatrician notice that her head had a weird shape and refered us to a specialist.  The specialist told us that our daughter had crainostynositosis, which is where the bone plates in your head fuse together too soon.  at 8 months she had the surgery.  After that we noticed that her development wasn;t what is should be so we sought some expert opinion on why our daughter had delayed development.  While consulting expert opinion we noticed the shape of her head returning to what is was before she 1st surgery.  When calls to the first surgeon were not returned we consulted a second surgeon at a different hospital (the first surgery used nothing but the bones in her head to reconstruce her skull).  The second surgeon took one look at her and schedule the second surgery (this one used 4 plastic dissolvable plates and over 150 dissolvable screws).  After surgery we continued to search for the reason for our daughters developmental issues.  When visiting one doctor he had excused himself and said he would be right back in 15 min...30 min later we went to see what was taking soo long....he said 5 more minutes....15 minutes later he came in the room with a genetic counsler and told us that he was testing our child for 3 different syndrome and one of them being Cockayne Syndrome.  He then proceeded to tell us that she looked like a child with Cockayne syndrome, but he had only ever seen one in his residency and was unsure but wanted to take some blood and have it tested.  on June 30th we got the call confirming that our daughter has Cockayne Syndrome which is characterized by poor grown and development, sensitve to sunlight, failure to thrive and a shortened lifespan.  There are three types of Cockayne Syndrome: type 1 has a life expectancy of 10 to 20 years, type two typically life to be approximately 7 years old and type three can live to be 30-40 years old.  Our daughter has type one.  She is extremely happy and loves life.

The point to my story is once you suspect something is wrong...DON"T GIVE UP!  NEVER GIVE UP!  If a parent suspects something is wrong with their child they might be right (we were told by a neurologist that there was nothing wrong with our child (at 1.5 years old) and that his son didn't crawl until he was 2.5 years old and now he is a 6'4" 250lbs. football player), shows how much this doctor knew (or for that matter wanted to know/find out for us)!  Also you have to undertand that doctors are only humans and they don't know everything or have seen ever seen everything, so it is ok to seek other opinions no matter how long  it takes or how may opinions you want, THAT IS YOUR RIGHT!

To everyone that has concerns about their child,

A Concerned Parent!