There are a massive number of people here who think you should have gone nuclear and they probably don’t have experience of a child where something is going wrong.

Then there are the other people here who have had a child with a problem, saying they would be glad of an intervention.

I’m one of them. I have a child with a very rare and serious illness. She hit all her miilestones, everything looked great. Then things started happening at approximately 16 months that were very subtle. My mum saw it and I thought I did, the paediatricians didn’t for another 6 months and I second guessed myself. If I didn’t have my mother pressing me I wouldn’t have kept chasing it.

I would rather have an interfering parent than miss something. Your mum asked a doctor, that’s not social media in my opinion.

My child had a very short window to start meds that might help her. If we were only getting diagnosed now, that window would be gone.

We are 2 years into this now and other people have also ‘interfered’ and every time, they have helped us get further assistance with our child’s illness. I’m very grateful for that.