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Thank you all so much for your support. As far as this ped goes, she does have quite a bit of experience with IA, so I trust her judgement, And she did say that his behaviors could simply be a combination of his prior environment, and the fact that his whole world has been turned upside down. However, there are some specific behaviors that raised some red flags, and she thought an eval. by EI services would be a good idea.
As far as "poking and prodding" -- an EI eval. is not intrusive at all. A regular dr. appt. has more poking and prodding. A therapist comes to the home and plays with the child for an hour, asks you lots of questions, watches how he interacts with siblings, parents; we've been through it before with Carolina. And our ped did say I could hold off on it for a month if I wanted to, but check back with her to see what kind of progress Jesse has made.
I guess I kind of knew that something is not exactly "right" -- even given the fact that Jesse's whole world has been turned upside down. Just hoping and praying that whatever it is, we can handle it.
I'll keep y'all posted.
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