Hello
Thought I would join in here.

Brendan was born 10 weeks early back in Feb 07, and due to his prematurity the central nervous system and parts of his brain remain under-developed. He has been 'diagnosed' with having SID as well as hyperactivity. Our paed doesn't hold much hope for Brendan growing out of it and has given him a high chance of being diagnosed with ADHD once he hits school. To add to this Brendan is developmentally delayed in all areas for his corrected age, Speech/Language being the worst (Brendan was more than 12 months behind in some areas at his 24 month corrected check).

For the time being there isn't much we can do, but make Brendan's environment safe (he has an extremely high pain threshold and mostly doesn't respond to pain) and keep up appointments with Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy.

We did look into the carers payment approx 6 months ago, but decided we'd give it a miss as getting a dr to fill out the paperwork was going to be a nightmare.... but now that we have Brendan's developmental report from the Paed we have something to take to the GP. Should get onto that actually...
All the payment will mean for us, is an extra day per week of respite for myself. Brendan is in daycare one day per week and with the new baby's EDD approaching fast I am considering 2 days per week... but we simply cannot afford it.

We recently started Brendan on Omega 3 fish oil tablets (you cut the top off and squezze the liquid into his food) but have yet to notice any improvements... my thery is if it does help even a little great, if not no harm in trying.

Sorry starting to ramble on now