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My youngest was born really small, not premature, but all the books about low-birthweight babies cover mostly premies, with just a tiny bit of information on full term babies. Anyways, you need to think of him as being the developmental age he would have been if he had not been a premie--in other words, 3 months younger than he is. So if you think of him as a 21 month old rather than a 24 month old, you will have more realistic expectations for him. Eventually they do catch up.
My youngest was born really small, not premature, but all the books about low-birthweight babies cover mostly premies, with just a tiny bit of information on full term babies. Anyways, you need to think of him as being the developmental age he would have been if he had not been a premie--in other words, 3 months younger than he is. So if you think of him as a 21 month old rather than a 24 month old, you will have more realistic expectations for him. Eventually they do catch up.
