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[quote=Anonymous]OP - you can see from this thread that there is debate about whether this issue was appropriately flagged at 9 months.

I think the more important takeaway is that you have learned early on that, where SNs are potentially in play, it falls entirely on the parent to figure it out.

Pediatricians are well meaning, but they are not at all experts in SNs.  Their value is limited solely to going through the same milestone checklists that you can get for free on the internet. This is helpful for lower functioning parents who are unaware of these milestones. But for the vast majority of functional parents, we're already following those milestones.  From here, pediatricians may or may not be a helpful sounding board on determining whether there's something to be concerned about, but most are overly conservative. Sounds like yours is overly aggressive. Unfortunately, as parents it's up to you to sort through their feedback against what you read on the internet and against your gut and personal observation, and decide whether it requires further expertise. And if you think it requires further expertise, it's 100% on you the parent to figure out what that expertise is.  Speech therapists and occupational therapists serve an important role for some kids, but I've never met a ST or OT who wasn't happy to take your money. Like, literally never.  The flip side is that, at certain ages and with certain issues, you may not find the service available. And your pediatrician won't know anything about service providers. My pediatrician knows the best pediatric ENT, but is not familiar with SN providers. So once you are exploring the possibility of SNs, you have this fine dance where you don't want to ignore things, but you don't want to overblow things -- but you, the parent, the non expert, is responsible for figuring it out. It's overwhelming.  [/quote]

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