In regards to the post about this baby:

<<  He is
still
going strong at the breast at 13 months.  He has always been pretty
grumpy
and anti-social.  He never really did the sing-songy cooing, toe
grabbing, or
easy laughing.  He has gained well, is obviously very bright but it
seems
like there is a missing link.  It has been a very strange case and I
wonder
what the future will tell us. Any LC's had a similar experience?  His
was a
very normal pregnancy, very healthy mom and dad and a wonderful
homebirth."

If the baby did not have a newborn hearing screening, or even if he did but
is not doing normal infant babbling and making eye contact, I would suggest
an ABR (also known as BAER-- it measures brain waves in response to sound and
is totally painless) hearing test to rule out hearing loss.  It is very
important to diagnose hearing loss early to enable lifelong communication.
Amy Kwilinski, LLL Leader, and mother to profoundly deaf son with cochlear
implant

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