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Originally Posted by Charles Baudelaire
I have to correct you on the Einstein thing. It is an urban legend so often repeated that people believe it's true, but family letters clearly indicate he began to speak when pretty much any other kid did and there was nothing particularly unusual about his development based on that one fact alone.
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That's funny- there's a book about "the Einstein Syndrome" based on that story that he talked late!
My DD used sign language and a few of her own unique words until she was just past two and a half, at which point her vocabulary exploded (if not her pronounciation.) She is very bright. I wanted to chime in about ultrasound and doppler use- I don't trust the technology, and have avoided it carefully through both of my pregnancies. With DD, I only let our midwife use the doppler a couple of times during prenatals, and then several times during our (long) labor. And she was not officially diagnosed as having a delay, but she was well behind any other kids we knew, speech-wise. (now, ask about her physical and social skills, and it's a whole other story
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And I know kids born to moms with health problems, or who are twins, who had weekly ultrasounds throughout pregnancy, and they all seem fine. The trouble here is that we're still learning so much about how all of this stuff works, I don't think we even know how to assess the damage (if there is some) yet.
If you don't feel good about having an ultrasound, don't do it!
I mean, what would you do differently if the US told you something you
didn't know? Barbara Katz Rothman's book, The Tentative Pregnancy, has some fascinating thoughts on the subject of weighing your options with prenatal testing.
(ok that might be too mean)
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my mom keeps saying, "well, all babies are different." which is very true. there are lot's of things she commends my baby about, how he's so smart, so friendly and well adjusted, never gets sick, etc. but she doesn't attribute none of that to the fact that i breastfeed. 
