They may be experts but no one knows your baby like you
by Laura Falin posted in Parenting
I was talking to a friend a few weeks ago whose baby had just been released from the hospital after a bout with RSV. As someone who has also had her baby hospitalized for breathing troubles, I was listening to her story and commiserating. She was talking about how she'd taken her baby in several times to be checked and she kept getting sent home from the hospital. And she said, "I didn't want to be a pain, but things just didn't seem right."
It reinforced something I've learned since I had kids: When you become a parent, you meet a lot of experts.
Experts in medicine.
Experts in education.
You read books by people who are experts in child behavior and experts on child development.
But you are the expert on your child.
I get pretty intimidated by people who know more than I do about things. I don't like questioning them when they have all those letters and acronyms after their name, but sometimes it's necessary. Because, while doctors and teachers and others know how most children behave, or how most children look when they're sick, or how most children learn... they don't know how your child does these things. While a baby may not look like her breathing is off, a mom who listens to practically every breath knows when something's wrong.
When my son was 9, I asked his doctor to test for an iron deficiency. It wasn't a standard test for checkups, and I don't think it's too common in boys that age. I only asked because when his...
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