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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP can you tell us the actual problems your child is having? In real terms?[/quote]

OK -

(1) She doesn't roll in either direction.  She has done so maybe 5 times in her life but they've all seemed kind of accidental.
(2) She isn't mobile - no crawling or scooting or anything really even close.  
(3) When I called EI, she wasn't sitting but she is now.

and two other things, neither of which I would have called EI about on their own

(4) She has been late on a number of other things, laughing, tracking with eyes, etc., - but does them regularly now.
(5) She started using consonants, then dropped them 2 months later.

The main reason I even called was because I was worried they missed hip dysplasia.  She was breech and had an ambiguous ultrasound at 6 weeks, but then they cleared her at a second ultrasound at 13 weeks.  The gross motor delays were consistent with hip dysplasia so I wanted to rule that out since we had that risk factor.  But the evaluator was less concerned about the motor delay on its own - just figured it was not enough tummy time.  But evaluator was really concerned about (5), and then when I mentioned (4) she seemed concerned about that too.  
Here are the additional issues the evaluator identified as red flags

(1) She doesn't ever calm herself down.  She physically can put her pacifier in her mouth but it NEVER occurs to her to do this when she's upset.  Also never occurs to her to suck her fingers when upset.  
(2) She doesn't hold her own bottle or a sippy cup.  The evaluator seemed SUPER concerned about this, and I was flabbergasted by it frankly because I have never before heard that this is required at this age.

The evaluator described this as not "problem solving" but also said that this was probably a bit early on that milestone AND (and this is where I got a little skeptical) breastfed babies often are developmentally delayed at this kind of stuff because they don't need to learn how to hold a bottle early because they're only on the boob at first?  The implication was also that we were doing too much "anticipating of her needs," e.g. spoiling her.

I understand that this initial evaluation was basically a gatekeeping one - and the legit one is probably the next one or another one.[/quote]

Not rolling or crawling at 7.5 months is within the realm of normal, but given the medical history, makes sense to get a QUALIFIED opinion about that from an actual doctor. What did your pediatrician say?

The other things sound just weird and incredibly subjective. I'm thinking maybe this evaluator doesn't actually see many infants and is not qualified. [/quote]

She sounded like she saw a lot of babies, but I think her role is one of checking boxes mostly.  When she called DD's name and she responded, she made a comment like "oh, you know your name!  The other day I saw a 6 month old baby who didn't know her name and it hurt my heart!"  Which struck me, because I thought 6 months was pretty early to consistently respond to name, and I was honestly pretty impressed that DD consistently did it for a stranger.[/quote]

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