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Only if medical professionals actually pay attention to the data you’re gathering. My first daughter had a horrible first few months of life due to an undiagnos
by moomin 9y ago
Only if medical professionals actually pay attention to the data you’re gathering. My first daughter had a horrible first few months of life due to an undiagnosed tongue tie. The evidence was right there.
- mholmes680 9y ago100% this. I showed my doc some stats once, and she looked a) annoyed; b) surprised; c) disbelieving. All of which i was not expecting. By the second child i was too tired to keep stats, so we winged it and the docs and I happily acknowledge that ignorance is bliss (sarcasm, i think).
- moomin 9y ago2nd child I got gaslighted again until I went to the _specific person_ who had diagnosed it correctly the first time. And yeah, exactly the same problem (different symptoms, but children are different). Turns out she’d been disciplined after the first time for stepping out of lane. (You’ll note, not for being wrong, the diagnosis got independently confirmed both times.) Medical professionals like and are used to being the unquestioned experts. But you are always the expert of your own child (because, like I said before, every child is different.)