So my 3 year old was diagnosed with GDD at 1.
She has since learnt to walk and expanded on her speech but her speech and behaviour is something that I still really struggle with.
Sometimes I can’t understand her, other times I can but when I can’t she will explode into a full melt down like it’s the end of the world!! (Techniques like breathing hasn’t worked for this situation)
If something isn’t PERFECT (I.e her toys aren’t in the right place, they are accidentally moved or her sister takes one) it’s the end of the world! She cries and cries until she can’t breath. It’s so upsetting to watch and hard to distract her when she’s like this.
She’s VERY day dreamy, she will day dream and just stare right past me if I ask her a question, or sometimes she just stops and stares. I know to look our for the signs if it’s more then just day dreaming so I will call her name and even though she won’t stop the day dream, she will smile or or make a noise that confirms she’s heard me. She’s had hearing tests because she wouldn’t react to her name in the past etc and because it would be like she couldn’t hear you (day dreaming) and ignore you they wanted to make sure it wasn’t because she found it hard to hear, her hearing test came back perfect.
When she gets angry she can’t bite herself, punch her head, head butt something, kick something and pinch something, sometimes she does these things to herself but she does it to me mostly but on a daily basis punches herself in the head. Luckily breathing strategies help with these things but I just don’t like seeing her do these things to herself.
Any advise or help for an extremely tired and emotional mum?!? I feel like I’m doing something wrong 😭