For me, though, the internet has been a curse the past little while. Our little Colin will be six months old next Friday. As of yet he does not roll over or bear any weight on his arms or legs. As I mentioned before he has constant fluid in his ears and is not verbalizing as much as he should be. He's also had respiratory infections or problems from the time he was two months old. So I started searching and have nearly sent myself (as well as my wonderful pediatric nurse) to the loony bin.
"What could it be?" I kept asking myself. Cerebral palsy? Ataxia? Spinal Muscular Atrophy? Pretty soon I was reading blogs and looking at pictures of wonderful children who couldn't even hold their own heads up and the incredible parents who care for them day after day. I was so scared. I called my pediatrician - "Let's do an ultrasound to see if there's brain damage. Or how about blood work to see if his CPK levels are high. They do genetic testing in Spokane, you know. We could overnight the sample there." Finally, Adam and my pediatrician told me I had to stop. Colin has a well-child visit at the beginning of May. Two weeks is not going to make a difference either way, they told me.
And they are right. So, I've let it go (as much as a mother can). I still try to get him to stand up on my lap and with some massage we've actually achieved a five second stand. But until the first of May I am just going to enjoy my baby.
Just for reference to how insane this week has been, we've already seen the naturopathic doctor (Phin is allergic to everything I feed him apparently), the chiropractor, the audiologist, the urologist (Colin is having surgery on his testicle), the pediatrician (George has strep throat) and the speech therapist. We're looking forward to seeing the developmental specialist and the optometrist before the week is over. I am thinking we probably should have put more money in our flex spending account, hmm?
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