Re: 12 Month Old - How much improvement can we expect?

[Guest guest]

Hi & welcome to our group:

Happy belated 1st birthday to your son.! We have had a lot of group

members whose child began their band treatment at an " older " age with

good correction. So don't worry! I am sure your son will get good

improvment too. My daughter Abby didn't begin her DOCband therapy

until she was 11.5 mos old. Abby wore one band for 4.5 mos time with

about 50-60% correction of her severe plagio. I am very very happy

with her results. Check out Abby's before & after pics here:

http://www.plagiocephaly.org/support/before-after.htm

Good luck at the casting Tues.. Please let us know how it goes.

Welcome again

Debbie Abby's mom 3/1/00 DOCGrad 2/16/01-6/22/01

MI

> I'm new here - Hi everyone! Our son turned 1 this past Sunday and

we

> go for casting on Tuesday for a Doc Band. By the time we get the

> band, he'll be just over 12.5 months old and I'm wondering if

anyone

> here can tell me what sort of results they saw with an older baby.

> We don't expect 100% improvement, not even 50%, but feel that even

a

> 25% improvement would be worth the effort. Has anyone ever not

seen

> any improvement on a child who started between 12 and 13 months

old?

> The pediatric neurosurgeon we went to for the referral was not

overly

> optimistic about the level of improvement we would see, so I'm

> looking for some words of encouragement.

[Guest guest]

> I'm new here - Hi everyone! Our son turned 1 this past Sunday and

we

> go for casting on Tuesday for a Doc Band. By the time we get the

> band, he'll be just over 12.5 months old and I'm wondering if

anyone

> here can tell me what sort of results they saw with an older baby.

> We don't expect 100% improvement, not even 50%, but feel that even

a

> 25% improvement would be worth the effort. Has anyone ever not

seen

> any improvement on a child who started between 12 and 13 months

old?

> The pediatric neurosurgeon we went to for the referral was not

overly

> optimistic about the level of improvement we would see, so I'm

> looking for some words of encouragement.

Robyn, Read your post. We are at about the some place you are. Our

son got his doc band at 9.5 mo. He was rated mod./severe. We are so

hopeful it will help him somewhat. He is almost 11 mo. now. Change

has been so hard to see so far. Everyone on this website has been so

optomistic. Only time will tell, I guess. Best of luck with yours and

keep us posted! Sue and Randy