Hi everyone,
This is a post I don’t want to write as I have a gut feeling but don’t want to face it. My beautiful sweet 16 month old hasn’t been meeting milestones. I am sick with worry as I suspect ASD, I have little understanding of Autism, but have suspected something hasn’t been right for some time. Here are my concerns:
She doesn’t respond to her name.
She doesn’t like being cuddled/ comforted.
She doesn’t say any words, babbles sometimes.
She makes little eye contact.
She doesn’t point or wave.
She doesn’t feed herself
She is hard to wean, doesn’t like new tastes/textures, gags and vomits.
She crawls, has only started pulling herself up to stand, but not walking yet.
She barely naps and some nights is wakened for the day at 3/4am.
She gets fixated on bibs fiddling with them taking them out of the basket and taking them everywhere, she has comforters but only wants bibs.
She plays with labels or turns her ride on over to spin the wheels, spins toys around.
My older child was a later Walker so I wasn’t concerned about that but, I have been questioning the other things, she has started putting her arms up to be lifted and presses buttons on her toys to hear the exact sound she wants. She doesn’t look at people who speak to her and ignores other children/people. The HV is coming out today after she asked me some questions on the phone and I am just worried sick. I have put it down to her being 4 weeks early and also when she was 3 months old I lost my mum and thought maybe she was picking up on my awful grief, she has also been in lockdown from 3 months old so has had such very limited contact with people and other children apart from her older sibling. Is the delayed development due to my grief and lockdown? I am just so upset. Any reassurance would be so helpful, although if she has ASD I want to get her the best chance ASAP but I haven’t the knowledge of protocols etc.
Many thanks. (Apologies for the long post)
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MumsyMum31 · 13/04/2021 07:27
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