I am worried for his socail side....

[BeatoNo3]

Hi there ladies...

I am a mum of a 2.5 year old who was born at 26 weeks in 2007. He had a long stay in NICU and came home on 500ml/minute of oxygen 24/7 which has decreased to .125ml/minute and only when he sleeps..(which is great) He also is short sighted in his right eye, wears glasses but with out them u wouldnt pick that bout his eyes. He is profoundly deaf both sides but has a cochlear implant on the right side and is getting his second in september this year. The implant is the best thing that has happened to us even tho there is no defined speech yet, he is defo getting there. He is PEG fed 24/7 which one day we hope to only do overnight but just depends on the weight he gains n stuff... He also has moderate Cerebral Palsy, so he isnt sitting, crawling or standing but is getting better. I am not sayin all those things for sympathy its more jsut so u have a background...

Ok so my question is altho we have all the intervention in the world like community health, RIDBC, SCIC, early intervention play group and he goes to a family dare 3 days a week (the days i study nursing) I guess I am worried for his socail effects his 14 months brother wants to play and when his brother wants to show him how to do somehting he gets upset and i think it the comminutcation barrier. I do try to explain to lachie my 2.5 yer old that it is ok and he is trying to help he just doesnt seem to understand. So i am worried bout when he gets older will he learn like sharing n stuff. Sorry bout going the long way round the questions but n e other mothers out there with kids with needs understand where im coming from....

[Mimsical]

having read your post, i would say that time is early yet and with how you described the problems your little man has i think worrying about his social side may be a little early. im sure your aware that all kids develop differently at different stages and from what ive learnt and been told, most things are not a big issue till a child is nearly school age.
i noticed you mentioned he is in family day care several days a week, is there a reason for choosing family day care and not centre based care?? i have a friend with a mildly disabled son and when he was younger she put him into a centre based care and the centre then was able to hire an extra staff member to tend to him only and his needs. i think that helped him alot socially as he wasnt just shoved to the side and dealt with when the time was there.
also another girlfriend of mine does the same kind of thing but in a school, and her job solely is to help the child develop skills he can use in society.
maybe its something you could look into for him.