The doctor had me fill out a questionnaire to see if Simon was meeting developmental milestones. Interestingly, the one thing that I find most bizarre (he still does not sit) was not even on the questionnaire because they are assuming that all 12 month olds are sitting. Anyway, Simon has three strikes against him right now: he's not sitting, he's not doing a good job eating table food, and he's not talking yet. The doctor seemed to think the eating and talking problems might be related, and suggested I contact the Wake County Infant-Toddler early intervention program to get him evaluated. I called them and he got in for an appointment in August.
For me, I am most worried about the eating. I know that all three issues will eventually be resolved, but the eating is the most annoying problem. He eats 8-9 containers of stage 2 baby food a day (because he gags on the chunks in stage 3 foods). He is still nursing, but less and less, and he doesn't drink much milk or formula. We continue to give him finger food like crackers, bananas, grapes (cut into 8ths), and avocados, but he doesn't eat much of these.
Otherwise, the kid is healthy.
