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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adding to the chorus of "these aren't reasonable expectations".  You can chat with your pediatrician but nothing sounds unusual.[/quote]

The wonder weeks app lists skills such as "plays peekaboo with a younger baby, mimics what people do, indicates that you think something is dirty, ask parent to build a tower of blocks by handing them blocks" etc. for her age. Hence my anxiety that she doesn't do ANY of these. And of course autism is what I worry about when she is mostly meeting physical milestones but social milestones appear delayed. [/quote]

Maybe spend less time studying perfectly average baby behaviour?  My kid (very social and engaged at nearly 2) did none of these things at 8 months.  I think at that age she mostly knocked over towers of blocks and was still rolling as her primary form of locomotion.  I would schedule with early intervention for your own peace of mind (it can’t hurt!) but know that there’s wide range of normal for milestones and the times those apps suggest things happen doesn’t track to every (or even necessarily most) babies.[/quote]

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