As we began our new life as a family of 4 things were absolutely perfect! Carter loved being a big brother and we loved doting on our beautiful boys.
As time passed, we started noticing that Jackson was missing ‘typical milestones’. Things like sitting up unassisted, rolling over, crawling and babbling. Honestly, it was hard to know if he was actually developing typically or not, because Carter was always way ahead of schedule for everything. At about Jackson’s 1 year checkup we mentioned to our pediatrician maybe we should test Jackson for Fragile X, but the response we got was “look at him, he is totally fine.” Not knowing much about Fragile X at the time and knowing this person is supposed to be a professional in their field, we took that at face value and went on with our lives.
Jackson continued missing milestones, but the pediatrican didn’t seem to think too much of it, because children develop on their own schedule and since nothing stood out to us as too crazy of a gap, we again went on with our lives.
Finally, at Carter’s 3 year old checkup, I talked to the pediatrican about some things concerning me with Jackson. All I had to say was he bangs his head on the wall, isn’t babbling and she cut me off and said we should set something up.
Long story short, we met with her and got a referral to an Autism Center and setup an Autism Screening. Then, we waited….
Our Fragile Xperience 