evaluation: I should be thrilled, but...

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Well...we had a very short evaluation w/ CT yesterday. After almost

200 miles of driving (Abby cried for 1 1/2 hours of it...teething, I

think), we were maybe 2 blocks away when somehow the road made a " Y " .

Mapquest didn't tell us about a " Y " in the road, and naturally we had

to take the wrong arm which spit us out onto some horrible, traffic

ridden thoroughfare. Suffice it to say, we were a half hour late

But Charlotte was gracious and spent about 15 minutes w/us.

The great news is that repositioning has been very effective. The

plagio is mild, and continued repositioning should take care of it.

If we want Abby to have a band, Charlotte says she'd only need to

wear it for a short while.

So that is great news, albeit bittersweet. It seems that her facial

asymmetry would go along w/ moderate or severe plagio. The docs

originally had dx Abby w/ a rare birth defect where one side of the

face is smaller. That's how we ended up at the specialists office who

said, " No, no. It's plagio/tort. " That's part of my quandry over her

ear & facial asymmetry. I want to believe that it's part of the

plagio/tort, but what if it IS a birth defect?

I was actually hopeful that I could put a helmet on Abby and

everything would pop right into place. I do know that she is much

more symmetrical since she's been off her flat side, so maybe things

just take time and I need to have patience. Gads, I should be

thrilled, but here I am panicking that her problems are permanent.

Her tort is moderate, so maybe the pull of the neck muscle is

restricting growth on that side of her face/head???

Tell me to keep thinking positively and be patient. Everything has

been going so incredibly great, so we should have every reason to

celebrate. I didn't know that such worrying came along w/ motherhood.

Cheers?

Christy (mom to Abby ~ 3 mos & 3 wks old)

PS: We got some new repositioning & tort stretching ideas. Will have

to share them at a later time.