My daughter was born 6 months into the lockdowns. At her 15 months checkup, the doctors were seriously concerned that she wasn't speaking at least 5 words (she

My daughter was born 6 months into the lockdowns. At her 15 months checkup, the doctors were seriously concerned that she wasn't speaking at least 5 words (she had 3 down). They believed that she might have trouble hearing and wanted to refer her for more testing. I told them that her hearing was just fine and that testing wasn't necessary. "How could you be sure?", they argued. I told them that she has no problem paying attention and reacting to her dad and I when spoken to. I told them that she has favourite songs that she loved to dance to and that she could hear them when the music was being played in different rooms, let alone different floors in our house. They weren't convinced and started gaslighting me into enrolling her into testing, telling me that the wait to see any specialist was at least 3 months and the longer I waited the worst the issue would be and that my daughters ability to hear properly was solely resting on my decision to not to refer her. I then asked the doctor and nurse if they had children (which I knew they didn't, just by observing how they interacted with my daughter). They confirmed that they didn't and I proceeded to tell them that my parental instinct trumps their authority on the issue. Long story short, she doesn't shut up now. She's leaps and bounds ahead of her peers when it comes to vocabulary and she loves music and dancing.