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Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Bruner1
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anyone else w/ a child w/ a delay?
Bruner1
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I suppose I'm looking for those who can relate.
My now 10 month old son started weekly physcial therapy (PT) at 7 months for a gross motor delay (low muscle tone). He has made progress, but I don't know if its progress he would've made on his own, or if the PT is really helping. At 10 months old, he's not yet crawling/scooting. He sits very well, reaches (and by stretching/reaching he essentially inches across the floor). He cannot pull himself up to his knees or stand. If I pull him into a stand, he only lasts 10 or so seconds before he cant hold it anymore. He still hates being on his belly & will roll off of it after only a few seconds.
He babbles, but does not do the usual 'bababa daddada mamama' (but there are b's d's and m's in his babbling).
He does eat some 'real food' (a bit of banana, a cracker, some peas, etc), but is no where near being able to eat 'real food' in place of purrees. He chews on sippy cup spouts, but has not mastered tilting the cup. When he was born (at 37w5d), it took about 2 weeks for him to 'get' bf'ing and it took about 6 weeks for him to 'get' eating purrees when we started solids at 5 months.
We're still at the point where we don't know if something is 'wrong' or if he's just on the slow side of developing. Does this sound like something you are going through w/ your LO? If so, how are things?
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Re: anyone else w/ a child w/ a delay?
Have you brought this up with your pedi? Or anything?
I don't have personal experience with this, but if you don't find answers on this board, you may try the special needs board, as they may have more experience with delays...
Hmmm...it sounds a lot like my DD1 who is now almost 5. She had low muscle tone and one leg was weaker than the other. At about 10 or 11 months she was army crawling and didn't walk alone until about 18 months. She did however put weight on her legs and could walk assisted before that. She did not have any delay with speech or fine motor. In a nutshell, she is now almost 5 and you really can't distinguish her from any other child. She still takes longer to go up and down stairs but that is really the only thing. She had pt until she was 3. She was never diagnosed with anything other than low muscle tone. SHe does have scoliosis, but not necessarily related.
DD2 (and DD1 for that matter) still eats purees at 91/2 months. She can handle Gerber puffs and things like tiny bits of cheese and noodles. But she definitely isn't on table food. She hasn't quite mastered the sippy cup. I don't know if I consider that delayed at only 10 months. I can say though that the pt did tell me that low muscle tone can affect chewing and talking muscles. I would maybe check into a speech therapist and/or occupational therapist to work on strengthening those muscles. If you start earlier rather than later, hopefully you can avoid further intervention. My bff's son would not eat anything because he hated textures in his mouth. He ultimately had to have a feeding tube. HE had other health issues going on, but if you can do exercises to work on the chewing etc now, it would only be a good thing.