It certainly sounds like it.My nearly 4 year old (4 in less than a month) had her tonsils removed at the start of August, and to cut a long story short, 8 days later suffered a large bleed and was hospitalized for a few days while they investigated. She is severely anemic and is now on multiple meds for the foreseeable.
She's not a lazy child, attends pre school full time as I work, so is on the go a lot. She has always been very very pale and they believe she will have always been anemic, I'm pale and blonde so we've always put it down to just her genes. While she is on the go at pre school, I cannot for the life of me get her to walk anywhere, and it's not from lack of trying either. She gets so tired and says her legs are tired. On Saturday I asked her to walk around town for a little while with the promise of a magazine, she tried her best but was so upset from feeling so tired. I am wondering if this is down to the anemia? For context the average 4 year olds HB levels are 120, my daughters were 70 and there is still a chance she will need a transfusion if her levels haven't risen at her next blood test.
I don't want her to rely on a buggy forever but I also don't want to put pressure on her health, she is already far too big for her current joie stroller (she's 105cm) but is under the weight limit (14.1kg).
I'm at a loss. I see so many children younger than her walking everywhere and I can tell people look at her when she uses it.
Sorry for late reply - that’s quite interesting to know, I had to have my adenoids removed when I was 2 so wonder if there’s something going on. Thank you I will consider looking more into this!This sounds a lot like my 3yo. He wasn’t saying much pre 2 and started preschool in at 2yrs 3mths. They referred him to speech & language but by the time he saw them his speech came on so well, and he’s doing really well now. He had glue ear from baby and got signed off when he was around the same age as starting pre school. We only got referred because I’ve got a history of family hearing problems. Could you maybe look into this? I’ve also had an ENT app recently because of his adenoids, and even though they aren’t large, they are bigger than they should be which can cause speech problems
(Sorry, I waffled on there)
We have had similar feedback to this from the SEN team at my son’s nursery, worded slightly differently but they have said other children will often be confused/concerned by his reactions and the extent of his meltdowns. But the other kids (and nursery workers obviously!) are very patient and kind with him which is great.So when I dropped her off at nursery this morning, nursery said yesterday that she was spinning round and just brushed by another child, the child didn’t say or do anything and A had a meltdown and was so tearful and over emotional and they said even the other (younger) child was looking at her like what’s happened, why are you so upset kinda thing. This is the type of “outburst” I’m on about, that it doesn’t make sense why it’s over the top and different to other kids etc.. that example there makes me wonder if there’s something wrongI don’t think the outburst is normal from spinning round and not hurting another child etc and she knows she hasn’t hurt them cos the child she can see is fine ?! I just 🫠
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thank you for the end part - this is going to help me a lot!
Bless him he must be tired. Hopefully if he wakes up later he’ll go back to sleepI’ve moved him to bed and hoping for the best
Is she still in a high chair?
Any ideas what we can put on the floor just in case?Mine is a smidge younger but I agree with the above, she’s definitely better doing something like cleaning or mopping with a flash mop and a wet wipe, than playing with toys. That said, since she moved rooms at nursery to one where they do more independent play, she will now play with her dolls and read them books, or sit and do some colouring for 5/10 minutes at a time, it seemed to click one day that she could do these things on her own for a few minutes so hopefully he’ll have a similar realisation!Thanks for your reply! I'm definitely realistic about what is a good amount of time, we just don't seem to get 1 minute of it
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I couldn’t find any in various supermarkets the other day.
Oh brilliant I'll maybe grab that actually! Thanks
That's what I'm worried about, she was like that with the playhouse we got her recentlyMine got a play kitchen for Christmas off a grandparent and he played with it for three days
Just depends what you think she’ll like best
Do they only itch once they r filled with pus or is it itchy from the get go? She’s getting loads of little pimples & it looks like tiny mosquito bites but it’s not itchy at all?
Yes! We had two dogs when our eldest was born, and over the 10 years until the second was put down in January, we found it very hard to meet everyone’s needs. Dog walks were done by one adult twice a day (or once as the dogs got old) because it was just not easy doing it with toddlers and young kids. The kids even at 5/6 couldn’t walk far enough for a “proper” dog walk - we had labs so they needed a good few miles.
Omg that’s brilliant. Just the fact she was there for two hours and enjoyed it. What more can you ask for. That’s fantastic
fingers crossed she settles in well and continues to enjoy it 
his dad said just bring him home if he doesn’t like it. But it’s still making me nervous 