Wow, thank you for responding ladies. Nice to know we're not alone. My DS hasn't been officially diagnosed with low muscle tone (although our private OT has said it, she is not the specialist that we will continue with once in the public system) but after reading up on it, I'm sure he has it, even if it is just a very mild case. He seems to fit some of the profile of it.

We have our public system assessment this Friday, but because I don't want to wait to get things started we're consulting the afore mentioned private OT and Speech Therapist while we wait the 3-4 months to get into the public system. I'm not sure how long it will be actually, as I'm not sure if he's chronic enough to get in straight away. His delays have been labelled by one as "moderate", so somewhere in the middle.

He sat up at 8 months, crawled at 16 months, walked at 20 but has not so great balance and his gorss/fine motor skills need a lot of work and he only has 3 words - ma, dada and ta. He's 2 years and 2 months.

There is a 6 month wait to get into a renowned development paed privately, but hopefully we can get into one sooner than that. I had taken DS to my GP and my original paed but was unhappy with my paed's lack of concern when he was 17 months old....although hindsight is a wonderful thing.

We've made some toys and games and bought some as well and continue to spend at least 30 mins (not even sure if that is enough) a day doing these or until he gets bored. We are plugging away at the spoon feeding and cup drinking, he does it well sometimes but not so well other times. Trying to wean him off his bottles too.

He also needs more grommets and his tonsils out in a month....tough times ahead. But it will all be worth it.

Thanks for listening.