Is there risk of brain damage after having neonatal meningitis?

Neonatal meningitis: Chances are less and less. Look for hearing deficit.

Continue taking your: Child to early intervention (http://www.Health.Ny.Gov/community/infants_children/early_intervention/) to monitor his hearing & development till age 3, then to your public school district's child find for evaluation, since learning disabilities, fine motor delays & attention problems may not show up till school-age. Severe motor or cognitive impairments would've been found on testing by now.

Depends: This varies with the germ involved, how soon it was recognized and treated,and how sick the kid got during the process.Meningitis defines an infection on the surface of the brain, and may not involve deeper thinking structures. Some germs produce worse outcomes, some not much at all. Having baby followed by early childhood can add extra eyes on the process and permit early treatments if needed.