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Quote: Originally Posted by baileyann3 i saw this in new posts, excuse my ignorance. Is loving books a sign of autism? Is it the repetitiveness of it that makes it a red flag? My typical child absolutely loves books. He has favorites of course. He would listen to stories all day long if I could just sit and read. His brother attaches to certain (train related) books. He will study them all day long. He memorizes stuff about the trains and...

The surgeon is the "head" of the team, so we can't really "fire" him, but that's why I sought out another surgeon at a different hospital (besides, the other surgeon is rated higher anyway). I kept Connor on this team because I like speech, audiology, the genetics counselor (not the geneticist she works for, but we never see him, we only see the counselor), and we *love* the dev ped. So it's...

I second clicksab. EI won't give a "diagnosis" - they will let you know if and in what areas she is delayed. At her age you would most likely get "developmental delay" as a "label" (if anything). It is harder to get a dx than most people realize. However, without the dx it is often hard to get needed services. I too was worried about having some dianosis or label follow my son around...

Quote: Originally Posted by baileyann3 i saw this in new posts, excuse my ignorance. Is loving books a sign of autism? Is it the repetitiveness of it that makes it a red flag? The short answer is no, loving books is not a sign of autism. If loving books is a sign of autism then I would be autistic because I adored books as a child and I still do but I'm not on the spectrum. Loving books isn't in and of itself anything to be...

Quote: Originally Posted by MotherWhimsey welcome to nursing. this is the drama I was talking about. As far as the tube goes, I don't know that they would do it until they had exhausted all the other options (like a bit glass of cornstarch before bed). They'd need to document a whole night inpatient to prove the need. In order to get the port, my son had two life threatening episodes that were observed before it was decided that it...

Hello Michelle! I been thinking about you and your sweet babies and wondering how you are doing. . Linda

I am beginning to think it is all the Ped specific docs that practice in there. We have had many issues with the Ortho group out of the Hospital. Hope things are looking better for you and the kiddos. And yes, the boys will really like to push your buttons right now. They know mommy is tired, they know the new baby is keeping mommy up and taking all her energy. They are trying to see how far they can push and what they can and cannot get away...

Sorry about the mean surgeons. I agree that if they work with kids, they should be good with kids. Can you fire one member of the cleft team? I used to work with our team in Houston, but it never came up (mainly because our surgeon is the sweetest man on the planet).

This isn't really routine, but we always make sure that dd gets to do something special while ds is in the hospital. If she's staying with my mom (one of our hospitals is local to my mom) then they have a "vacation" while we're in and a lot of the time she doesn't even want to visit very often. If we're in our local hospital, dh keeps her and they do stuff like go out for chinese food and go to the...

oh...you totally didn't offend me I just always feel like i'd rather people know the correct "term" for Down syndrome than to feel silly once they realize!