hi. My daughter is 10 months old and her birthday is in a couple months, my fiance and I want to get her a service dog because we had found out when she was 4 months old that she is epileptic and with my work schedule and my fiance fixing things in the house or redoing the yard or helping our neighbor we get worried about leaving her alone with her soon to be 3 year old brother who may I say never seen her have an episode. all my son knows is that his sissy takes medicine and that’s it. we told him if you see sissy shake come get mommy or daddy but we feel like he would get scared. so mommies if your little one has a service dog where did you go for the training and how long did it take before your pup was registered as a service dog. cause we don’t want to take chances of an episode happening while we are doing something or when she gets old enough to go to school and she has an episode at school or out playing that nobody knows that she had an episode. I’m a mother of soon to be 3 my son is healthy minus having his tonsils and adenoids removed and tubes in his ears he is healthy my daughter is the only one that showed signs of epilepsy. so please mommas if your baby has a service dog where did you go for training how long did it take and how much were the classes? tia
Hold up you leave a 3yr responsible for a 4 month old who has a disability… what in the hell… um…
Let’s start by not leaving a baby alone with an almost 3 year old… 13 maybe, but 3? Is this a typo?
First off, she probably means when they go outside or outside of the room. Dont be judgmental and assume.
Second, let your son aware of this. Thats my opinion. Yes its scary, but dont teach him to be afraid. I have a sister with epilepsy. My 3 year old knows she has seizures and is fully aware of them.
Also, i cant help with the service dog thing. Thats my opinion.
Service dogs are expensive, just a forewarning
Check out the FB page Chelsea Hutchison Foundation, they have a lot of great resources.
You guys know dogs live more than a few months right? Maybe she means when her son is older than 3 and watching her? Or if they’re playing together and she has to take a shit?
There wasn’t much context given with that statement, so try not to make assumptions yourself.
My friend got a service dog for her diabetic daughter. I don’t know how she found the breeder/trainer. But the training started super early for the puppy (like 2weeks old), and the puppy was about $10K or something close. They had a go fund me page started by a relative to raise the funds.
This family is in Perth, Australia so pricing might be different where you are. Might be different for epilepsy vs diabetes traning too maybe.
Good luck with everything, I know these little dogs were an absolute game changer for this family!
“Fixing things in the house and the yard”… He needs to wait until you are off work to do those things. It’s not a good idea to leave a 10 mo old alone with an almost 3 year old, ever. And trust me, I know it’s hard… But they should not be alone together… 10 month olds eat everything they find… It takes a split second to choke on something. This post is just very bothersome 🤷🏻♀
If you have Netflix watch the first episode of Dogs. It goes into detail about a child getting a service dog. Something else to keep in mind is that this dog will not be a family pet and your other child may have an issue with that being that he is very young.
So with your son’s age it might be hard for him to understand that the dog is a service dog and not a pet, therefore making it difficult for the dog to keep focus on your daughter if your son keeps trying to play with him. You should wait until he’s a few years older and can understand better that you can’t play with this dog. When you do decide to get a service dog the cost of the dog and training will be very expensive. I’ve spoken with a military service dog trainer about getting one for my PTSD and she says it’s easier to train from a puppy than an older dog but puppies are usually more expensive and training can take up to a year or more. My suggestion for now is to just take your daughter where ever you will be. If you need to make food, bring her in the kitchen in her bouncer/chair. Same if you’re going to the bathroom, bring her with you. Tell your husband to hold off on work outside untill you’re home and can watch her. A 3 year old shouldn’t be left with the responsibility of having to watch for an episode. He could be so into a TV show or playing with a toy that he wouldn’t even notice something is wrong and then it could be too late. Also he might not be old enough to understand what type of shaking you are talking about as he has never seen her have an episode. He might mistake her getting a chill as the shaking you want to be warned about and while a false alarm is better than not being informed at all, some siezures don’t cause shaking and she could have an episode and he wouldn’t realize it.
Why are you leaving an epileptic 10 month old to be looked after by a 3yr old? So many things could go wrong. He is barely able you look after himself at 3 much less a baby…