Prewriting essay

Submitted By Michelle-Windle
Words: 518
Pages: 3

The unusual life as a mother and student

When my daughter was born at thirty-eight weeks she was an average baby and did everything like a normal child would. She was a little delayed but we babied her so we thought nothing of it and just assumed her being babied too much so we let off a little. When my daughter turned two she started regressing and we then realized something wasn’t right so we enrolled her into a daycare while I was pregnant with my son as I was on bed rest and “she wasn’t quite right still” said the daycare provider! She started on potty training and would go back and forth on the idea of it! When our daughter was three she was fully potty trained but then started regressing again, so we decided to take her to a psychiatrist and therapist very young and had her evaluated as her school said she was Autistic and had learning disabilities and we were so devastated but facts checked out. She was in therapy every week and psychiatrist once a month but still things just didn’t feel right so, I met with her school and discussed what to do with her teachers and principal. Well she was enrolled in an IEP’s of all sorts for speech, Autism, and physical too. She has been improving but still just wasn’t behaving and was out of sorts all the time. Autumn then had her fourth birthday and was getting worse with the medicines she was on so we discussed the side effects with the doctor and she said to take her off and that she had a strong feeling she also had scitzophenria. When I heard Autumn had schizophrenia I just sank into a depression and felt a lot of anxiety as I thought I was a bad mother and didn’t take care of her correctly in utero or during her birth life. I enrolled in school while she