My dd has a gross motor delay. She has always been this way since she was an infant - even with PT. She is now 6. She gets PT at school 3 days a week for 1/2 hour. Her PT says she does not see anyone more than she sees Gabriella, and that there is only 1 other kid she even sees at the same frequency.
No matter how much PT she gets, she is never closing the gap between what is normal and where she scores. It is getting frustrating for me and I worry that the older she gets the more it may become an issue. She doesn't seem bothered by it at this point.
Previous PT (in preschool PT) wondered if it as neurological, and we did have a neurological consult. The neurologist said she did not see anything concerning, all kids develop at their own rates, etc.
Is it possible that she could have a chronic nutritional deficiency that has affected her all these years that may be causing gross motor delays? She had pumped breast milk for about 6 weeks, and then formula after that. I think we started baby food around 6 months or so (jarred baby food - I know better now!). She had reflux as a young infant and was on Zantac which we discontinued around 6 months too (I think). She had some issues when she was first born and was in the NICU for 3 weeks while the idiots wouldn't run the test I asked for when she was first born, and instead ran every other test under the sun. She was hypo-calcemea (however it is spelled - low calcium) at birth and had a calcium IV given to her. She had an ASD that closed before she was 3, and a PDA (I think that is the acronym) that closed before she was 8 weeks old. For both heart defects, they were closed by the first time they did a follow up. She also had hydronephrosis (urine backs up into the kidneys) which was resolved by time she was 1 (was not expected to resolve until she was older). My children are born with transient congenital hypothroidism (which is was I asked to be tested immediately and was ignored until she was 10 days old and hardly woke or cried for anything). Transient means that she is not actually hypothyroid. My antibodies blocked her thyroid from working in utero. Both my kids were born with TSH levels around or above 900. She is not hypothyroid now, although her TSH runs a little high. The doctor says she may have a higher set point than normal due to her history. Free T4 numbers are fine. She has no thyroid antibodies of her own. I have Hashimoto's (does not cross placenta) and thyroid blocking antibody (does cross placenta). Apparently the situation is fairly rare. DD2 experience no symptoms at birth, and did not need the NICU (she was a home birth). We tested her out patient almost a week after birth, and her TSH was even higher than dd1's was when it was first tested. When dd2 is 3 (is Sept.) we will also challenge her thyroid by reducing, then discontinuing the Synthroid we are expecting her to be fine too.
She is still a bed wetter as well, and has some sensitivity issues that she has mostly overcome (except she is still a super taster and very picky eater).
She is also still prone to wild temper tantrums and I though most kids outgrew that by 6 (but I could be wrong!).
No matter how much PT she gets, she is never closing the gap between what is normal and where she scores. It is getting frustrating for me and I worry that the older she gets the more it may become an issue. She doesn't seem bothered by it at this point.
Previous PT (in preschool PT) wondered if it as neurological, and we did have a neurological consult. The neurologist said she did not see anything concerning, all kids develop at their own rates, etc.
Is it possible that she could have a chronic nutritional deficiency that has affected her all these years that may be causing gross motor delays? She had pumped breast milk for about 6 weeks, and then formula after that. I think we started baby food around 6 months or so (jarred baby food - I know better now!). She had reflux as a young infant and was on Zantac which we discontinued around 6 months too (I think). She had some issues when she was first born and was in the NICU for 3 weeks while the idiots wouldn't run the test I asked for when she was first born, and instead ran every other test under the sun. She was hypo-calcemea (however it is spelled - low calcium) at birth and had a calcium IV given to her. She had an ASD that closed before she was 3, and a PDA (I think that is the acronym) that closed before she was 8 weeks old. For both heart defects, they were closed by the first time they did a follow up. She also had hydronephrosis (urine backs up into the kidneys) which was resolved by time she was 1 (was not expected to resolve until she was older). My children are born with transient congenital hypothroidism (which is was I asked to be tested immediately and was ignored until she was 10 days old and hardly woke or cried for anything). Transient means that she is not actually hypothyroid. My antibodies blocked her thyroid from working in utero. Both my kids were born with TSH levels around or above 900. She is not hypothyroid now, although her TSH runs a little high. The doctor says she may have a higher set point than normal due to her history. Free T4 numbers are fine. She has no thyroid antibodies of her own. I have Hashimoto's (does not cross placenta) and thyroid blocking antibody (does cross placenta). Apparently the situation is fairly rare. DD2 experience no symptoms at birth, and did not need the NICU (she was a home birth). We tested her out patient almost a week after birth, and her TSH was even higher than dd1's was when it was first tested. When dd2 is 3 (is Sept.) we will also challenge her thyroid by reducing, then discontinuing the Synthroid we are expecting her to be fine too.
She is still a bed wetter as well, and has some sensitivity issues that she has mostly overcome (except she is still a super taster and very picky eater).
She is also still prone to wild temper tantrums and I though most kids outgrew that by 6 (but I could be wrong!).
