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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope this is the right forum to post this.

My DS is 9.5mos, not crawling or even pulling himself to sitting on his own.  He started sitting unassisted if we put him down maybe 1-1.5 months ago.  I had to take both kids to the ped for sickness/possible ear infection yesterday, and I mentioned these concerns (it wasn't his normal ped).  She did a quick examination, and she told me to follow up next week with our regular ped when he's back in town.  From what I understand, the next step is a more thorough examination to determine what type of intervention...not whether he needs intervention.

As far as I can tell from online searching and talking to a friend whose son was in a similar situation, the best case scenario is weekly PT for several months/years.  And there are obviously still so many unknowns.  The latter will hopefully become clearer with more assessments, but I'm already feeling a lot of self-doubt around all of this.  I had a difficult and at times scary delivery, and so part of me is also wondering if anything that happened then impacted him.  Beyond that, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this.  Right now, I feel like with two kids, a FT job, a volunteer commitment that I'm really devoted to, and a DH whose travel has recently stepped up a lot, I'm already feel overwhelmed and pretty stretched.  And then I feel guilty that this is even a thought in my head.

Anyway, I guess I'm looking for a little support and also advice from people who've experienced something similar.  Unfortunately, we're not in Arlington anymore, and there is nothing like the IEP program here. My friend lives near where I do, but she used the Arlington program for her son and says it's unfortunate we don't have something similar.[/quote]

Where do you live? Every jurisdiction in the US has some program like the Arlington one. We can help you find it.[/quote]

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