20 August 2009

They monitored Olivia today but apart for a couple of small absences which we told the Paediatrician caused her stutter to get worse again there wasn't much to see.

We told the Paediatrician that earlier in the day my husband had bought Olivia a In the Night Garden magazine (which are her favourite characters) and she couldn't name any of them. I even tried bribing her with TicTacs. We were both concerned by this. We also told a nurse and the nurse pointed to an elephant and Oliva couldn't name it. The nurse said "big nose" to try and prompt her and she just repeated "big nose" as if it was it's name.

He said it was probably related to her age and that you can look in to things too much. He also dismissed the stutter and said he wasn't worried about it and that it wasn't linked to the other things going on.

I also asked him if he thought Olivia's problems could be to do with the Tamiflu overdose and he said there was no evidence to suggest it was.