If you already had a child with ASD dx then you had another child with ASD.

[Doordye]

Sorry for the ridiculous title.

My son was diagnosed at 6 after 2 years on the pathway.

My daughter has a lovely baby boy. Im sure even though he's not quite 6 months that he’s ASD.

When you had your subsequent children who also have an ASD at what age did you just know?

Reasons why I think he is. His dad has a diagnosis of ADHD & he has MH problems which could possibly be un dx ASD but im not too certain about that.

He's very like my son, colicky reflux, crying/screaming on & off through the night. I cant remember specific details with my son though at this age, other than he was very late with his milestones but obviously at this age I wasnt looking at my son for signs of ASD.

When he was only a few weeks old we booked a photo shoot, they had to do every picture with him swaddled, werent able to pose him at all, the photographer said he had never had a baby like him.

Hes just short of six months, hes not interested in people or faces at all, even his mum. Hes breastfed & he wants to be picked up all of the time. Even if your trying your hardest with smiles & pulling faces, singing etc, he looks briefly & looks straight away. I would say sometimes hes actually avoiding being face to face. On the rare occasion you can get a smile from him, its very fleeting, i would describe it almost as a shy smile, the same with the odd giggle. He doesnt seem to respond to our voices.

His hearing & vision has been checked.

What other things should we be looking for?

The HV is doing his development check after Xmas . DD has mentioned she has concerns mainly because she was considering switching to formula & rang for advice, HV said she was going to come & see him, he sounded very clingy & did she have any concerns.

I think, I would rather my daughter enjoy her new baby, rather than become anxious over looking at Autism signs. If the baby has Autism, then so be it, seems like the daughter is getting the appropriate support / tests for her boy.

Worrying is a waste of time, let her enjoy her new child.

I agree, at this early stage it’s important to just enjoy the new baby. Once we had our dx at 27 months it changed how I looked at my son for years. Everything was a developmental opportunity. I stopped just enjoying his baby years. My big regret.

My youngest was just like this as a baby. He is now 3.5 and we are just starting the assessment process for autism. There isn't much that can be done at this age. I found it helpful to use some of the techniques we used with ds1 to help him. I would be worrying too though.

My middle I knew at about 3 months. With my youngest it was about 2/3 years old. Ironically she is the more severe of the two. I’d also second letting your dd enjoy her son.

Forgot to add that I knew from 3 months with my youngest but all hcp's who I talked to said that I had to wait until he was at least 2 before they would consider referring him.

Yes, I would just try to enjoy your dgc for now. To answer your question, I suspected something was ‘up’ with dd2 when she turnd 3yo, I knew nothing about autism, but realised that was what she had was ASD about a year later. She 2s finally diagnosed at 7.dd4 is 2.5 years younger. I realised she had ASD when she turned 4. She was diagnosed at 5.5. None of the bullshit I encountered the first time either of having to fight for a diagnosis, despite the fact that I felt she was much more subtle in her presentation (both are v subtle to the untrained eye anyway. -hey, even the trained eye!).