My dd 2 has very poor speech/understanding, having salt+waiting further dev tests.
I feel like I'm about to lose it as I'm fed up of smiling+pretending what people say isn't bothering me!
My dp thinks there's nothing wrong with dd+she will start talking when ready! Even though private speech therapist said within 10min she has a significant communication disorder (she was the first person to actually acknowledge that dd doesn't understand words anywhere near as much as she should+its not just slow talking)
I feel like I can't talk to dp without him getting upset+thinking I'm overeacting.
Also one of my closest friends keeps trying to give me advise on how to get dd talking as if I'm an idiot (sorry,I know she means well but it just comes across like she thinks it my fault dd not talking) don't know if being paranoid but get this feeling from MIL also as I have recently had to up my hours at work to 5 days 9-3pm+obviously I'm not spending enough time with dd teaching her to speak! My own mother has always brushed things under the carpet+everythings fine. I might work but I also make sure I spend all my free time with my dd and hve tried everything to help her, people don't see this+i feel so patronised when people say maybe you do this/that.....(Sorry long rant over now!) The salt actually praised my efforts so far+said I was doing great things using the hanen approach-i think without that one comment I wld have gone insane by now!