Hi I’ve got a 14 month old who I’ve got concerns about I’m looking for an opinion from mums who’s got kids with autism I’ve spoke to my Health visitor but they’re a long waiting list to be seen!
She pretty much met all her milestones crawled around 8/9 walked 13m starting clapping/peekaboo around 9m and said dada mama around 9m she can call the family dog by name says more when she wants more food points to what she wants babbles away waves bye , put phone to her ear and says hiya, pretends to feed her baby her bottle or sippy cup try’s to feed us with her food hugs her teddy gives me and her dad kisses when asked and sometimes without , points to flowers says flowers puts her arms up to be picked up points to belly, teeth , nose and toes when asked , pretends to sneeze when we do can press buttons on iPhone says a few more word bubbles , no , dada , nana , more , Flower , duck , gone a few more she notices when we leave the room and follows us if we ask her to bring us something she will she will
Open the draw get her own snack and bring for us to open for her , brushes her teeth pretend to brush mine when doing her own seems ok with other kids although not round many as only child and no nursery she has good eye contact and responds to her name well
My concerns are recently she has dropped mama for a couple of weeks but hearing it the past couple days some times and before when I use to say 1 she would say 2 or if I said ready she would say Go but hasn’t done so for past 4/5 days , she’s still waking threw the night , Seems like the tantrums are starting to increase she makes some strange noises with her mouth like humming almost , she has a thing with her ears it like she’s picking/ itching them like as in ear wax or something not covering them or plugging them just playing with her ears multiple times a day and dropping the words has concerned me and he most as when Googling it coming up ASD she used to hand flap but haven’t noticed any of that for about 6 weeks she don’t like her hands being dirty she won’t have a tantrum but will come to me with hands out to wipe them hates being strapped in her car seat in the car also sometimes stares into space but when I say her name she easily distracted
Am I over reacting? Isit an gut instinct or isit anxiety is the dropping words concerning she still says other words but drop a couple at the time mama seems to be coming back after a couple weeks but not consistent
also I’m worried about regression now