Worry

I took Andrew to the pediatrician today for his 18 month check up. While she was very happy he's walking now, she's still worried about his lack of speech. He's not saying any recognizable words yet. Since he had been on an antibiotic to get rid of the fluid in his ear, she used a tympanometer to test whether his eardrum was vibrating. If he still had fluid, we were going to have another round of antibiotics with a re-check in two weeks. She also suggested waiting until he was 22 months old to see if his speech improves before we went to an ENT. That was the plan until she saw the results of the tympanogram. It showed that there isn't fluid behind the ear drum, but his hearing is still very poor. So instead of waiting, we are headed off to the ENT in two weeks.