what age do you correct until??

[pandaiis]

Just wondering. Ds is a year this weekend. Is it a year they when they stop adjusting the age?

My DDs developmental progress was monitored up to 2 years (she was 14 weeks early). It probably depends on how far 'behind' they were to start with and how much they've 'caught up'. I stopped quoting the adjusted age to people after about a year I think, but if she wasn't doing something others of the same actual age were doing, I inwardly used the adjusted age as an excuse reason .

Not sure that answers your question though - I seem to remember being told that by 2 years she should have pretty much caught up.

Thanks AB. ds wasn't too early - only 5/6 wks but had other issues like low birthweight so he's been sooo behind in some things but flying ahead in others. Now you mention it, I think I remember someone saying to me as well that they should catch up by two.

I didn't mentally adjust DD1's age after a year (she was 33 weeks) but I did make sure I told the nursery and pre-school she attended at 2.5 yrs that she had been prem, in case development was an issue. I didn't bother to tell her primary school though as it had definitely ceased to be an issue by then.

I am still in the habit of correcting DS' age (born 10 weeks early). He turned 1 in August, so I think upto the time of his due date 1st birthday in November, I will carrying on correcting, then just leave it.

I too have read that its normal practise for their age to be corrected until 2 years of age.

I agree with ABF. As soon as she was doing what others were I wouldn't think about her age, I used it to remind myself that she was allowed to be slower than other babies at things.

ABF, I've been in labour for a week (I'm 25 + 5) but I'm not dilating. It's terrifying enough I can't imagine what it was like for you to actually have a baby here.

Tinks Mum - I have everything crossed that it all goes well for you. It is indeed no picnic having a baby that early, but as one of the nurses said at the time - 'it's just that this way you get to see them grow from the outside'. I remember thinking at the time that it was a 'nice' way to think about it.

Tinksmum. Hope you managed to hang in there but if not - my friend's baby was born at 25 weeks and 5 days and he is coming home in a few days. He has had a lot of problems - heart op, hernia and some loss of peripheral vision - but his brain scans are Ok and he's obviously a very determined little lad.

ABF, that's one privilege I felt having my babies so early. Everyone who looks at my first daughter is amazed at her and I know people who go back to her picture at 20 weeks because it reminds them what they're carrying.

I'm now 28+2, contracting about hourly, sometimes half hourly and occasionally it picks up to 15 minutes, but it's not been more often in the last 3 weeks. I've been told it's likely to happen within the next four weeks now.

My twins were born nearly 2 months early, and are now 2 years old. I don't correct their age anymore, because now there is no reason to. I think I relaxed over the issue when I found they weren't the "last" in their peer group to learn to walk; some full term babies took longer.

TinkerbellesMum, gosh, hope you can hang on! Was talking to a friend today whose son came in week 30. Lovely lad, and off the scale in height. She and I both had spells in hospital "hanging on" when pregnant; I managed to prolong pregnancy by 3 weeks, she managed 3 months.