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This is a continuation of our guest post on a mother’s perspective on her young son’s autism diagnosis. Read part 1 here. Read all our Birth & Parenting Series here. Contact me if you want to share your story! —- How the Diagnosis Works When we took our son for his physical in June, we mentioned our concerns to our family doctor. She immediately referred us to the pediatric neurologist. We were very lucky to see her within two weeks, and after a meeting with her, she sent us to the psychologist who was the expert in autism for a screening. We were able to see him relatively quickly, too, and by mid-summer, we had an answer: he was autistic, but not classically so. When…
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I went to confession this weekend and it had been a while. Nothing is so humbling as waiting in a long line to tell a priest who’s acting in the place of Christ how petty, imperfect, and small you are. Nothing makes you so honest as having to actually articulate your failings aloud to another person. And nothing is more cleansing than an acknowledgment of failing, receiving absolution, and resolving to try to sin no more. How are we supposed to accomplish that? One day, one moment, one choice at a time. And asking for help along the way. For me, that means being where I am and not constantly trying to scramble to the next place. It’s Monday morning. Relax, it’s just the first…
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This is our 20th post of guests sharing their birth and/or parenting stories. See the other 19 posts here. They range from homebirth to epidural, homeschooling to bottle feeding. Today’s post is written by Nicole M, mother of a preschooler who was diagnosed with Autism. It’s not that simple, though, and her journey will be shared in a three part series over the next few Fridays. Read, learn, and appreciate that every child has his or her own path, taking their parents with them. — Early Signs and Seeing His Differences In retrospect, we probably had a lot of signs. As a baby, he was fascinated by words and labels and would stare at those constantly. We joked he was going to be a tort…
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How on earth did SweetPea suddenly go from baby to cruiser?? I simply don’t know. She’s 9 months old, just now, and she stands up, pulls herself up on any piece of available furniture, crawls fast, and is starting to walk around holding on to things?! SuperBoy is less than impressed. I think he preferred life with her stationary, or perpetually in “the pouch” as he calls the sling. He cheers for her, but when she encroaches on his baseball cards, or his puzzle pieces, there are lots of reminders from on High (me, that’s me, Big Boss) to be gentle. Thankfully he does love his sissie, or chunky love muffin as he likes to call her. So when your baby is suddenly a cruiser,…
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So when your extended family all get together over the holidays and one little person is screaming in the bathroom with you on the other side of the door keeping it shut, what do you do? Oh, that’s me and my two and a half year old. It’s time to talk about little-person-induced-trauma around here again. I have a whole series on tantrums & toddler behavior viewable on the bottom of home page, here. But really, what do you do when your smart, sweet, adorable, intense, intelligent, and very headstrong little child is seemingly out of control? 1) How did we get here? First, a little background on SuperBoy’s development towards this behavioral cliff, you might call it. He’s a bright child with a highly…
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What does a dino blankie and communing with the Divine have in common? Well, maybe something for me. The lovely blog Mother Spirit invited me to guest post about how I nurture my mothering spirit. I was delighted to sit and think about all these profound thoughts. Only to come to the very simple notion that somehow my sewing is spiritual. Not very profound, but very real in my simple life. I wrote about why we start religion from the cradle in our house the other week, here, but this post is all about me and my nourishment of spirituality. Subscribe to her blog, and like her on facebook. And read my guest post here. Thanks, Mothering Spirit!
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