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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did they diagnose low tone?  It doesn't sound like your child has the typical markers – isn't floppy, example.

I'll only throw this out there, take it with a grain of salt.  My pediatrician insisted when my third child came in for her four-month checkup that she had torticollis, or a head tilt.  I had never noticed a thing, and I have two others kids who have had varying degrees of all kinds of little bumps and quirks throughout their young years.  She said she would evaluate again at 6 months.  I never saw a single indicator of what she was talking about, and mentioned it again at her 6-month checkup, as in, I still hadn't noticed anything.  I even looked at old photos, saw nothing.  She agreed with me, then cocked her head, looked at DD again, and said, "Nope, I still see it.  Have her seen by Infants and Toddlers."

Now, given that my son had speech therapy with ITP as a toddler, I think they're great, but I really did not think this baby needed physical therapy.  But when I tried to politely decline, she basically threatened me – said that she would know from records whether I actually called them or not.  I went home and called ITP and they came out.  Happily declared, with the PT in tow, that she was the healthiest and happiest on-par baby they had seen and told me not to worry about a thing, she was perfect.

I promptly changed pediatricians later that afternoon.

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Please please share the name of the pediatrician. We all need to avoid this person[/quote]

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