worried about Ali's squint and speech

[ann]

every since Ali was born i have noticed a slight squint, i have mentioned it to the doctors etc on numourous occasions only to be told the usual waffle about it being the bridge of his nose is wider and so it makes it noticeable but nothing was wrong,

anyway its got worse and worse, the poor sod spends a lot of his time cross eye'd especially when tired usually its just one eye that turns in but when he is tired both eyes do

I took him to the doctors again about a week ago and mentioned about his eyes (which lets face it they could see plainly) and it was a new doctor who immediately said yes there was something wrong
(at bloody last pehw!!!)
and has referred him to the eye hospital. now its just a matter of waiting

I also mentioned that i was concerned about his speech another thing that the other doctors have said nothing was wrong with, i told her all the words ali says which are very few

DADDY most favourite word of all and said every time daddy is in the house.
with the odd mamma thrown in but generally he doesn't call me i get the grunts,
MINE
BYE
NO
YUP

if anything he had other words he used to say but doesnt now!!!

I know boys are a lot slower but in all honestly all my others had more than this vocabulary before they were one and ali is two in a few weeks time

thing is one of my neighbours said her son had a bad squint when he was little and his speech was really bad and that they were connected
i was wondering if anyone else knows if there is something in this

I don't know whether to feel relieved that there is finally someone in the medical profession who actually agrees with me that his eyes are bad and speech is bad instead of just telling me its because he is young and its nothing or that because boys can be slower etc

now i just have to wait until i get a referal appointment quickly and something can be done, i know with one of my twins who has Marcus Gunn syndrome (left jaw winking syndrome) it took over a year before he saw a specialist after being referred,

no doubt he will end up looking like the milky bar kid

oh well not much i can do at the moment except wait

love Ann