Word: hypotonia
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...been pretty healthy. But a couple of months after he was born, Asher started having trouble feeding and was spotting his diapers with blood. The pediatrician decided he had an allergy to milk. Then, at 9 months, he couldn't crawl or sit up. The diagnosis this time was hypotonia, a vague term that basically means "poor muscle tone." With physical therapy, Asher walked at 17 months, but then a month later he caught a cold--and overnight lost half his vocabulary. Nobody could figure out what was going...
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