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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you everyone for sharing your thoughts. Yes, it's free at Montgomery County. I am hesitant (not saying no) just because I wasn't sure if it's necessary, if I'm overreacting or being impatient. Sort of a wait and see approach as one of the PPs suggested.

We are first time parents and didn't even know programs like this exist for babies with no medical condition. After our 9 months check up and assessment, her pediatrician suggested this program. Believe it or not, it took 3 weeks to set up this assessment appointment. This is in respond to the pp who said we should have started this a while ago.

We are going to try this as it is free and were told we can stop anytime. Anyone other success stories from EI?[/quote]

Op if people who are trained in this stuff found her eligible you clearly aren't being over reactive or impatient. If she qualifies, then she needs it. Period. You could take the risk of not doing it and see how long it takes her to catch up but why? Why make her wait til 15 months to learn how to feed herself when she could be doing it at 10 months? You also run the risk of losing lots of time addressing stuff. Being in EI means if more pervasive issues are present they will be able to catch them and address them. If you keep her out of EI, you lose that.

The thing with kids with delays is it's impossible to know how it'll shake out. It could be just late blooming and they're totally fine or it could be larger issues that indicate serious delays they will be persistently dealing with throughout childhood. You can hope it's the first but would feel terrible if it were the second and you had wasted valuable time waiting to see. [/quote]

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