With three boys close in age I am very aware how different children can be one from the other.  I have a 4+ year old shy and serious boy, who when he was hardly two years old was able to do a regular 36 piece puzzle after watching me do it once or twice.  He is probably the youngest kid in his first grade class now (boys in our community have to catch up on a lot of learning and therefore start first grade at -4.5 - 5+ years)  and while the class his still reviewing the alphabets he is practicing to read small words on his own time.  On the other hand I have another jolly little blonde son who will be three soon and wouldn’t even try doing a fill in puzzle on an 18 month age level, but totally unlike his older brother will never forget a promise that I made or whom’s chance it is to turn off the alarm clock in the morning.  Besides for being able to deal with a crowd much better than my extremely timid older son.  With both children there are stages when I feel I am the luckiest person in the world to have them and other stages when I have to keep on reminding myself that they are my children and I have to love them no matter what.

As for height, my husband is both short and overweight (unfortunately it seems like he’s giving over this nature to all of my children) and it didn’t affect his brain in the least.  He was always way ahead with his studied in school and in many other areas.

I also have a sister and sister-in-law who are both preschool teachers and they fill me in on many of the odds and ends (like how hard it is to deal with specific parents, especially if they are convinced that their immature daughter is bright enough to jump a grade....).

In this particular case though, I don’t see how it all applies.  From what I read in the first stages of my babies diagnosis still, it seemed pretty clear that the adrenal glands are what pumps life to a person and when a person lacks the necessary hormones typical symptoms will be that he’ll become fatigue, lethargy, go into shock and eventually die.  I think my son was reacting exactly as expected.  I’m not saying that if he wouldn’t have CAH he would be the brightest, smartest boy around, but since he does have it and the changes in behavior and activity; both positive and negative ones usually occurred at the time when his treatment was altered, I believe it should say allot. 

Another thing, my son weighed close to 9 lbs. at birth and is now not much over 17 lbs.  From what I heard "failure to thrive" could be a symptom of lack of treatment.

....and yes, I think that there is some early intervention program run by the state, up in NY, but will the "tax payers" on this board agree that I should make use out of it???....

Thanks for responding

Risty