Paed says 6mo ds has fairly low muscle tone. Is this always bad news?

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I'm worried sick. He's referring him to be assessed by a physio, Thing is, the paed took less than a minute to test him - ds was very tired and crying - it was well past his nap time. Says he's equivalent of a 4 month old.

Hope it's just a one-off 'personal trait' of ds, iam, and that tone improves, and things continue to look good for ds' development.

X.

Me too Hub, more than anything.

I just keep hearing the paed muttering something about cerebral palsy and I don't know anything about it.

cerebal palsy has a big range of effects assuming it even might be cp. So it could be significant or hardly noticable. You might get more help asking on the special needs board on mn for instance, i think mieow (?sparklymieow?) has got 1 or 2 kids with CP.

IAM

Sorr y for the delay. Christmas took over!

He was late at everything. Didn;t roll over, didn't stand until late, didn;t walk until 16 months, couldn;t hop, get up without using his handsetc etc.

This was combined with a twin brother who was rolling at 4 months, crawling, walking at 12 months (like his sister) so we were very concerned.

Turned out he was the other end of the spectrum (late as possible) but now he's 5 and can do everything.

Hi

I am having similar problems with one of my twins

they were born at 29 weeks

twin 2 has assesment on 26th this month so hopefully we will find out whats going on.

He is very clumsy, friend thinks it is low muscle tone too

he is also still under paeds at hospital and they will be 2 on 16th

Understand how you are feeling forat the moment i am totally cacking it

Thanks everyone - have started a thread on the SN board (by ntt)

Mo3 - that's heartening. thanks

Jambuttie - sending you loads of luck for the 26th x

yes sparkly has 2 kids with CP (my neice and nephew). both were prem babies (nephew was born at 35+5 IIRC), and neice was 7 or 8 weeks early. there is a genetic predisposition for brain bleeds with mieow and her dh, and i think they werwe also told there is a 10% chance of them having another baby with CP. i'll get mieow to come on and correct my mistakes later

Yes Misdee is correct, I have 2 kids with CP, my son was born at 35+6 weeks and Dd1 was born at 31 weeks. We have a 10% chance of it happening again because of a genetic multifactorial predisposition.