Hi everyone. My name is Sarah and I am 27 years old at present. I am a stay at home mum to three beautiful children aged 6, 6 and 4. I have a wonderful husband who does everything he can to provide for our family. We live on the northside of Brisbane, QLD, Australia. One of my children has Autism. Welcome to my blog.
On the 6th of September 2005, my husband Patrick and I were made the very proud parents of twins. I couldn't believe it. We did it. We created not just one magical human being but two at the same time. The most overwhelming feeling swept over me. Amazement. Look what we did. At that time we lived with my Mum and Dad who helped us out so much with them. I never realised how much harder it was having 2 babies compared to 1 was (having say that I don't know any different). The twins were an April Fools Joke gone wrong lol I told everyone as a joke that I was pregnant with twins on April Fools Day. However when I got my first ultrasound done just before my 21st birthday, I found out I was having twins. By the way its the last time I have ever played an April Fools Joke on anyone.
Everything was awesome. By the time the twins were 3 months old we were living in a small unit a few houses away from mum and dad. The twins were starting to settle and sleep through the night by 4 months. I thought I had everything down pat lol. Just after Callum and Rhiannon turned 1 I found out I was pregnant again. I had an ultrasound at 5 weeks to make sure that we were only having one baby this time lol. I was told that there was an 80% chance beforehand that there could either be twins or triplets in there. So as you can imagine I totally freaked out. But luckily for us on the 17th of August 2007 baby Noah was born. The twins were 3 weeks off turning 2 when I had him. It was a ball of fun for us.
I had the twins in Family Day Care which I absolutely love. By the time Noah was 2 months old he was going as well (I trust these woman with my other 2 kids so why wouldn't I trust them with my baby). I am really glad I did that with him because when I put Callum in at just over 1 we had big separation issues for a while. By the time the twins were 3 Rhiannon was a little chatterbox while it was noticed that Callum was quite happy just to sit quietly. A few people said to me "Oh she is just doing the talking for him". He wasn't as talkative and couldn't string a sentence together. Luckily I followed my instincts and got his hearing checked out. Turns out he needed grommets/tubes put in his ears because he could barely hear us.
This is where the fun began......
I was told by doctors that once his ears were fixed his behaviour will be awesome because now he can hear what was going on around him and what we were saying to him. The opposite happened. He started lashing out and getting frustrated. Both Patrick and I were completely baffled as to what was wrong with him. We took him to go and see The Wiggles a couple of months after he got his hearing fixed and he had (what I now know today) was his first major meltdown. He hadn't been diagnosed with Autism at this stage so we didn't know what was wrong or what was happening in the mind of my poor little guy.
We started to see a child psychologist where we did the Triple P parenting course. Throughout this she came out and observed Callum and she was the one that started the ball rolling that he was ASD. I am so glad to this day that she did. On the 1st of September 2010, Callum was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder. I was actually relieved. I had an answer now I had to figure out how my little guy ticked. To this day I am still trying to find it out.
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