Posts by peekyboo

I see familiar names - I hope you all are doing well! As for us... Maura is doing great, as usual She's going to be six next month and we're getting ready to do the kindergarten thing. Which is NOT going smoothly. So I put on...

I think the biggest misconception I have found is people think that if your child has issues, doctors MUST know why. I can't tell you how often I hear "But what do you mean the doctors don't know what's causing her...

I do think I will push the issue. The whole "I didn't know I wet myself" is new. And it really bugs me. I talked to my mil yesterday to ask about the one cousin, to see what she had (I had thought it was more of a bowel...

Just the ped. I've thought about the pediatric urologist though. I keep getting told that she'll grow out of it, but it just is'nt getting better.

Okay, I've brought this up to the ped at least once a year and have gotten the whole "Wait and see" thing. But I'm getting worried about my dd's bladder issues. She's almost 8. She wets herself. A lot. Sometimes just a...

I think b/c it's called mothering.com, you have more women. However, we are not anti-men. we're all members of the ShaggyDaddy Fan Club :

Quote: Martha---that's where I am coming from as well. Maybe "autism" is not curable, but maybe symptoms are. I couldn't understand why anyone would not want to work on that. But I think I have decided that moms...

My dd had one. She's now 7 1/2 and will probably graduate out of speech therapy within the next year. She also reads at a 4th grade level - she's just going into 1st grade. I don't understand how the phonological disorder will...

Quote: See, this is where I get confused. I mean, how do you know? How do you know whether your child *truly* has autism or instead has a food allergy or something else that is causing autistic-like symptoms? From...

also keep in mind the growing trend of classifying ADHD as an autism spectrum disorder, which just further expands that umbrella.