I am not sure what to do or go from here... I (we) tried for 3 years to have my daughter and we finally had her. I was so happy and excited. Then I suffered from depression and got that handled. She receives speech, special ed and has many allergies. She has only limited words. When she is around other people, grandparents ect she is golden, she is 2 years old. Around her father and I and we are married, its like a whole other person has come out. She whines all the time, can not say what she wants even though she does use signs. She has us repeat things, that we should not need to. I try all these fun things, to listen to get cry or whine, the same happens with my husband. She wont eat certain things for us, other people she will. My MIL thinks that I am crazy and that these are true, that she doesn't get enough to eat, drink vitamins, ect. There are times that I think that I want to leave it all behind. My husband is wonderful and we do use a sitter, but it doesn't seem enough. Day care and things are so expensive and I would hate to pay, we pay a sitter as it is, when i need time. We don't have a lot of family support, they all think we are crazy. She does things for us that she doesn't do fo anyone else. I have tried to ignore and ignore that is 100% worse. I am not sure that I want to have it like this until she's in school. I sometimes wish that she was normal and could just tell me what is going on. It is so fustrating. Any thoughts? Thanks
I'm sorry I have to say the following, she's speech-delayed, which means she has trouble getting her thoughts across combined with terrible twos (which goes well into age 4), combined with being an only child (the world goes around her), it is not her fault.
You need to help her, be calm with her, try to understand her. You've piled up all the complaints you had only to come to the point: you need a break from her.
I am having a hard time feeling for you. My child was speech delayed. My child has a hearing loss and the 24 hrs a day I get with her is not enough for me. I need more hours in a day to help her be the best she can.
I don't even remember how and what babysitters do. Nor do I care.
Call your pediatrician ASAP and ask for a referral for early intervention. It's free! They will do an assessment and then provide a specialist to assit your child in speech, etc. The referral must come from your dr. so call there ASAP - especially since the Holidays are right around the corner!