Hi
just dont know where else to turn to as dh thinks im worrying too much and Gp has tells me he wouldn't be worried unless he was 2.
My lo is 11 and half months old , but was born at 29 weeks prematuely so has a corrected age of 9 months to the day. .He is not saying mama, dadda etc at all which all the books say hes should be now.I am worried sick as a so called friend (whos never actually met my lo)has told me that lack of this at this stage is mostly caused by mental retardation as she phrased it!he is prem so is high risk she tells me.
Hes a very happy little boy ,very alert and into everything, sat up at 6 month corrected. backward crawling, tummy cammando crawling and rolling everywhere.he can get from lying to sitting himself and vice versa, finger feeds(infact demants those organic crispthings when he sees the bag i keep them in), very socaibale and loves peek aboo and pat a cake. in fact the only thing worrying me is his speech.).He says da and ba. He blows rasberries, clicks, imitates coughs. coos alot and does alot of sing song vowel sounds with a few constents .he makes more contsents when he has his fingers in his mouth . Just no constents together yet. like mama or dada. he seems to understands his name, loves nursey rhymes, and puts his hands up to be picked up, claps,and waves bye.
Was not to worried before,just so proud of what hes doing. just thought it might be that he was prem(he had no major problems in nicu),. He also had a bad ear infection 3 months ago and burst his ear drum which has rehealed and his hearing test then was ok. He had started to say da. ba but stopped 2 weeks ago with another ear infection but is restating to say da and boo just today. Can having ear infections in which he hears ok ie turns to his name and laughs at nursey rhymes effect his babbling? he still is pulling his ear but the gp says the ear infection has gone.
The other thing is my parents are spanish and we spend about week a month with them and we speak no english.speak only english to the lo at other times. read somewhere that can delay things. again never thought this would be a problem.
please give me your honest opinons, managed to get an appoint to see the pead in 2 weeks but am driving my self mad by googling mental retardation and speech delay.
excuse the spelling and grammer.
thakinh you so much