Jimjams, I'll ask her next time we see her on Friday if you want.
I don't know if ds has sensory problems or not, but he does find it very hard to cope with people coming too close or touching him if he doesn't know them very well. Took about 6 months for him to do physio without crying when she touched him, and any doctors, well he's screaming before we are even in the room. Ot he is ok with because in his mind they are just playing games, but if she tried to make him do something he didn't want to he'd get distraught. Spacemonkey has seen him regularly since he was tiny and she got her first briefest cuddle only last weekend! This is from the boy who loves talking to her on the phone, and from his love for Gareth Gates, thinks she is GG's mum (don't even ask it's too long a story!)and therefore perfect!!! He gets really stiff whenever he thinks he's going to be touched.
I've also noticed over the last month or so, that he sometimes has to look right at me before he will notice what I am saying/do what I ask. For example in physio, he will if given the chance escape into his own world playing with the little yellow school bus he is obsessed by (dinky car size), just pushes it back and forth non stop. He becomes oblivious to anything else and I have to call his name quite loudly, and tell him to look at me/physio, so one of us can tell him what to do. Then he will say ok (or no if he's feeling cheeky) and do whatever he's supposed to. But this is happening a fair bit now, and I'm not sure if it's just an age appropriate development of selective hearing or not!
On an aside, dh and I have both noticed that he keeps falling over a lot recently when crawling, his arms give way , particularly his left one. This evening he did it and got his arm trapped rather awkwardly , and he was rubbing it for a while bless him. Anyone with any experience of this?
Sorry for all the waffle!