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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I have boy/girl twins.  At 6 mths I really started to worry because my girl was making significantly more eye contact than my son.  Significantly.

I was trying to talk myself out of this fear, knowing I'd love him no matter what, etc....  I was holding him one afternoon while stewing about all of this and when I "came to" and looked down - he was staring right at me and held my gaze for quite a while.  It was exactly as if he was telling me to get a grip - he just found other things at least as interesting as me as he was getting new perspectives on the world.  It was pretty funny.

He has been significantly later than my daughter to speak, longer to put strings of words together, but always within some reasonable range of normal.

Try not to make yourself any crazier than biology already decides you will be.  :-)

[b](And by the way - he's not a significant preemie - he may be a few weeks behind "classic" middle of the road markers for this first year but the odds are that none of that will matter at all, or still be true, 2 years from now.)[/quote][/b]

I get really sick of seeing this. That is your experience. Statistics show that even [b]late term preemies [/b]have delays at much higher rates than term kids. Much higher. Most -- not a few, but MOST -- preemie parents I know -- and any kid born at 34 weeks is indeed a preemie -- will tell you their kid was late to walk or talk. Some kids don't have delays, of course. But any time there is a significantly increased risk it is good to be aware of it.[/quote]

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