Meet Bekah the Ballerina

Bekah is 2 years 7 months. She is a very pretty little girl. She has very curly brown hair and brown eyes. She talks about wanting to be a ballerina, and wants to play the violin. She also talks about wanting to go to school like her big brother. She climbs on our couch as if it were a playground. She jumps up and down in her crib as if it were a trampoline. She is a very typical toddler. If you get to know her, you probably wouldn't think anything was wrong with her.


Knowing something is wrong with your child has to be one of the worst feelings I have ever had as a parent. When Bekah was a baby, we never really noticed anything unusual. She laughed, she cried, she did all the things that a normal baby *should* do. At least I thought. Recently, I reviewed her pediatricians records at 9 months, she didn't meet the milestones of being able to play "peek-a-boo", roll over, pull herself up, or crawl. She was flagged as having a "mild motor delay". I don't exactly remember her not meeting those milestones at that age. Had I known she had been flagged at this time in her life by her pediatrician, things might have made sense much more quickly than they did.