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My daughter is now 3. She was born at 36 weeks, labor was induced due to her irregular heartrate.  Her heartrate went down to 7.  When she was born she did not cry for 6 minutes.  She never crawled but walked at 10 months.
At age 2 I learned she had a speech delay, assumed to be apraxia, also a fine motor delay.  A year later her fine motor is fine but she has a gross motor delay and is weaker in her arms than her peers.  She still has a speech delay, and while it is assumed it is apraxia, she doesn't fit the general requirements.  She is slow to learn colors and numbers, but after much effort remembers some.  She is very attentive and enjoys learning.  She has always been a very mello but fun child.  She runs and jumps, and plays normally, but is slow on the stairs.  She is also unable to climb on the toys at the park, that children younger than her can.  She has always just sat there when picked up, never holds on, and her hugs are weak.  She is very social.  Since birth she has had some kind of spasms, with a look of pain on her face, in her lower back and thighs.  This happens while sitting 75% of the time at least. Her back goes forward and back, and her legs go up and down over and over.  It isn't restless leg, she is fine while lying down or standing.  It is so bad that she will sit to color and end up with a death grip in her crayons, and her arms jammed into the table just struggling to sit.  I often have to let her eat standing because she cannot function when this happens.  She doesn't cry, but like I said she has always had this problem so she is probably just accepting of it.  She has a neorology appointment, but I was wondering if anyone has a clue what might cause these symptoms.
I know I should have taken her before, but the doctor said RLS, and I know it is not that, it is all the time, not worse at night, and not when lying down.  Another doctor said ADHD, but she is not hyper at all and is very attentive.    
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She also could not put her mouth around a bottle nipple when she was a baby and lost over half her milk while drinking, the doc said she had a coordination problem, and we resolved this by getting the fat nubby nipples for above her age that filled her mouth, the milk loss was minimal after this.
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I looked up blue baby, and looking back in my mind and at pics she did have a bluish timt to her hands and mouth for the first 2 days, just slightly, the doctors never said anything.  Also, when she was six days old she stopped breathing and was rushed by ambulance to the ER, they sent me out of the room, and did tests.  They never told me about the tests, abd I recently looked on my insurance website at her medical history, and found that they did three hearth cardiograph tests, and diagnosed her with a PDA.  They never told me, and she has never been followed up on, could this be indicative of her problems, please if you know anything help.
She has only the symptoms that she is not real active, and she sweats when she cries instantly.  She does not appear to have breathing difficulty, and her Doc never said anything about a murmer, could she still have this?
She also had a ventral hernia above her naval, not umbilical.  
She had reflux until this was repaired at 9 months and was on zantac since the day she stopped breathing until then.
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No She was not blue, when she was born she was really pale, even her lips looked white, a few days later she had Jaundice above the Diaper line, and only needed sunshine.
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Was she a "Blue baby"  if so I might be able to help.
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