In need of a bit of advice...

September 28, 2007

My daughter, Hermione, was born as the oldest of triplets in April

2006, at 33 weeks gestation. Within two weeks of her birth she had

already been diagnosed as having a heart murmur and an intracerebral

hemrrohage. When we brought her home at one month old she was also

diagnosed with gastric reflux. Everything seemed ok for a while, but

we soon noticed that while her brother and sister were developing

quite normally, Hermione was still slow to grasp the rudimentary

skills of her age, such as holding her head up, sitting (even with

support), and crawling.

She is now seventeen months old, and has only been crawling and

sitting unaided for about six weeks or so. She seems to be having

problems gaining weight, and cannot support herself on her feet, even

if I hold her up. We got the triplets measured for their

first 'proper' shoes on Tuesday, and while and Melody are both

a size 3(UK), Hermione is only a size 1(UK) which is about relative

to a 3-6 month baby. We have asked our GP and paediatrician about her

problems, and they just pass it off as her being a slow developer.

Basically I would like to ask if anyone thinks it's possible that she

may be a dwarf? Our health visitor thinks it is a possibility, but

even she can't get the doctors to listen to us when we ask them to

investigate. She was in hospital two months ago, and we thought that

would be the best place to get them to test her, but they just

brushed our query aside as if we were the least important people that

could have been there.

Oh yeah, and a bit more background info for you. I am taller than

average, Bill (their dad) is average height, and my oldest daughter

is tall for her age. Bill has two older daughters who are also of

average stature. My younger brother is very tall, but my older sister

is rather shorter than average, but not a dwarf. As far as I know

there is no history of dwarfism in either Bill's family or my own. I

suffered from cancer as a teenager, and also have a unicornuate

uterus.

That's about all I can think of to tell you, so it would be nice to

see what anybody else thinks. Hermione is a very happy child, but I

think even she is beginning to realise that something is not quite

right, and it upsets her when she can't get up and play with her

siblings.

Thanks,

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