Feeb- i thought a similar thing when DD was a few months old. She rarely cried, never startled at loud noises and certainly didn't turn to a noise. But over a few months all that changed. I guess like Belife says she was just 'cruisey'. Hope the same goes for your little man.
I rang MCHN this morning and asked to change appt from thurs to asap and told her why and she told me not to stress and wait till then, and she will see what she thinks and if needed send us for hearing test.
Hi Feeb
It can be very difficult to tell if a 5 month old can hear. One thing you could try is a loud sharp noise such as a clap or bang 2 pan lids together. Don’t just look for big startle signs also look for small signs such as blinking. Obviously you need to make the sharp noise when your baby is not expecting it
we went thru this with Jack I was so panicked I took to banging saucepans beside him no response, took him to dr and even though he passed his birth hearing test we forked out the $$$ to have another and he was perfect, the audioligist said not startling at loud noises is quite normal as they have a very small attention span and dont seem to notice anything excpet what they are doing :hugs:
I know ive said it before but just wanted to say I hope little Jacob will be ok and im sure he will. You remember how I thought the same about Liam. He is fine. Maybe Jacob is just a easy and settled little man. I will be saying little for him hun.
Hey feeb, how did you go?
We were worried about DS' hearing too, for much the same reasons.
MCHN said they dont tend to test it at the audiologist until 7-8 months, and even then, when we went, they wouldnt do it becuase DS was not sitting unsupported - they told us to come back later.
By that stage we were well convinced that his hearing was fine and there werent any issues.
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for him hun.
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