signs of FAS

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hello all
my LO is adorable and doing really well drugs (mostly cocaine) known in birth parents background. hard to assess how much alcohol was drunk
but presuming a lot. he was very small at birth as was his younger brother (not placed with me)
now he is coming up to 2 i am beginning to see what he struggles with. Can i ask at what age it is possible to see some FAS symptoms? I find the info online quite overwhelming as of course i know that some children only get a diagnosis very late in life. many thanks for any insight.

Your best bet is taking this up with a gp social services would have told you as much information as possible

From my understanding lots of signs or symptoms can be from other things too. I've read a lot that 5 or 6 is when things become apparent, but I don't know whether that is because it coincides with formal schooling which is when key issues can become apparent.

In the meantime I would suggest maybe reaching out to your agency, ours has a specialist fasd worker who can start to explain diagnosis pathways and symptoms and (most importantly) what you can be doing in the meantime to support. My view is that it's not so much that you can cure the symptoms, but you can alter their environment appropriately according to their needs, so that's what I would be focusing on doing whilst you are waiting. A diagnosis may help access resources, but a lot of resources are available online etc to support

My DD is 3 and has been referred for diagnosis,we started with our health visitor she did an assessment and referred us.this was done when she was 2.i would get into the diagnosis system as early as possible as will be so helpful for school and it does take years.youbcaj do via health visitor or go to early help hub but talk to have your case/evidence/opinion ready.keepung a reflective diary might help so you can show/recall the behaviour easily etc.
I would recommend adoption UK for good fasd info and the fasd hub group on facebook.

huge thanks for the info!

Sorry for all my spelling mistakes! Hope you made sense of it. Was in middle of kids breakfast chaos! Yes the facebook group I mentioned is FASD Hub Scotland Peer Support - Im not in scotland but its been helpful for me. And Adoption UK do meet ups I think, altho I've not been to one as never time to get to them! lots of good info from the A&F podcast& FASD Ireland.
And I wonder if I can get this link to go on here that Ive found useful,
https://www.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/public_comments/alcohol-reports-project-no.p114503-00004%C2%A0/00004-58256.pdf

your chaos sounds fun😹thank you this link has worked and this is chart so so helpful. many thanks i will get onto those resources

FASD can mimic lots of different things including early trauma, ASD and ADHD. Our neurodevelopmental service assesses for everything at the same time so if you get a referral they should pick up anything underlying rather than needing a different referral pathway for each potential thing.

Thanks jellycats. I will look into that.

If you Google NHS Ayrshire and Arran FASD they have a lot of information and it's really easy to read, not too overwhelming and is really user friendly

Thanks so much @MonsterChopz will chase that up