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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How old is your baby now? I've read about a pull to sit test that can be used by ages 4 to 6 months to test for head lag associated with autism or cerebral palsy. Not to add any reason for worry since the odds are greatly on the side of your baby being perfectly healthy! [/quote]

OP here.  Wow, thanks!  He's nearly 6 months, but he was six weeks early, so he's about 4.5 adjusted.  I had never heard there was head lag associated with autism.  He's doing pretty well at raising his head when pulled to sit so that would be a relief.  :-)   But I probably shouldn't be indulging this anxiety at all!

PP's are right -- I'm going to love this little boy no matter what.  No point borrowing worry.  I'm one of the people who posted in Expectant Parents section about fears that my baby had dwarfism because he had a really really short femur compared to head circumference at a late ultrasound.  I freaked and googled dwarfism for two weeks obsessively until someone posted something like, "What does it matter at this point?  You can't stop dwarfism, you aren't going to terminate, so you're just going to love your baby no matter what."  And she was right.  It's a bit tricker with autism since early intervention can make such a difference, but still.  I'm going to love him no matter what, and there's not really anything else we'd be doing now that we're not doing, so I ought to just try to shout down these fears and enjoy him.  Right? [/quote]

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