sensory problem .....uumm i dont' know

[justamom]

my some was evaluated yesturday...for delays...well they said he was o.k. but was red flagging for sensory....what ever it is..but i just don't think so...

1. he does bang his head, but only to go to sleep. her response..children typically don't do it this long...
2. he loves spicy food.,not just spicy, but sometime we can't eat it...now we are cajun so we never thought anything of it... she says that it isn't normal.
3. he is considerably unstable and stumbles alot. i thought that was normal for tots
4. he stuffs his mouth...again don't all kids do this....now he does it almost everytime he eats but i thought he was just gready...she says no
5. he is very very touchy feely, aren't all baby's to there mom?
6. petrafied of bubbles in that bath! i thought everyone is scared of something
7. gets nervous in large crowds, and tunes out. geez don't all tots?

now she did say that not just one of these means anything , except the head banging, but all of them combined started to kinda show a pattern..
anybody agree with this lady
i do have some concern but nothing along these lines, sometimes i think my ds is briliant and other time i think good gracious child...

i should also say alot of his social issues i think are because he stayed sick and we stayed in "alot"...i tried to tell her that but, still

the teacher that gave the assessment said that he showed signs..i told her that he was in the house alot and so on...but she wanted to get an OT to do a complete evaluation, my concern was whether or not to even do the eval...he seems o.k. to me..some days i question i guess and even make my self sick literally, and no sleeping because things he does just "isn't right", but when i ask about them other moms say that there kids did them and they are o.k....DS still bangs his head at night, and i was o.k. with that, it is his thing..but then the teacher says that by this age he should have stopped, now the flapping just appeared but one mom just wrote back and said he son did it...so i don't want to put my son through a bunch of nit picking by other people that don't even know him they'll find something i don't understand why i am soooooooooo nervous about ds!!! i have a dd and i never ever thought that something wasn't right. i don't understand why i fret on every little thing he does.. do you all ever feel this way...the teacher says he was clumsy and believe me he is, he runs into stuff especially if he is excited and running, but i hate to look at him in dread of "what it all means" instead of saying look my lil baby, ya know....like i said before he changes so much from day to day to day by the time i think o.k. maybe i should do something he stops and starts something else that just freaks me out...

It's so awful the way you've been left to deal with this by yourself.

As I said earlier on I think all the 'symptoms' this person mentioned can just be normal toddler behaviour. As this is all getting you down so much and making you feel understandably worried, it may be an idea to make an appointment to see a paediatrician. They will be looking at the overall picture rather than just concentrating on one particular area such as sensory stuff. They will hopefully be able to put your mind at rest and leave you free to enjoy watching your son changing and growing. Even if by some remote chance they did discover a problem you would at least know what you were dealing with. I personally found the "Is he/Isn't he okay" period far worse than finding out that my 2 had problems. Like you I was watching for every little sign, particularly with ds2. It was like being on a rollercoaster. One minute I would think "Hurray! He must be okay because he just did X/Y/Z!" The next minute I would be thinking, "But now he's doing A/B/C. Does that mean something or am I just being paranoid??" Lots of sympathy. xx