I wrote a letter too

[Guest guest]

I too wrote a letter to the CEO

Titled - APPAULED AT RECENT ARTICLE

One of my mom's group brought to my attention, an article you

published titled " Flatheads in Need of Tummy Time " by Meredith

O'Brein.

I wanted to bring it to your attention that the article was

completely wrong and did not contain any current information or

research on this actual condition. yes this is a condition with a

name even - it is referred to as Positional Plagiocephaly - not

FLATHEAD.

I am a mother of a two year old daughter who was told the same thing

as the doctor in this article says, and by the time I did my own

research and saw a Neuro Surgeon here in my city - I was too late to

correct the Plagiocephaly.

In this article it is stated that the head will gradually start to

round out - but it fails to mention that the flatness produces a

problem in the face called Facial Asymmetry which if severe enough

and not corrected can lead to problems as an adult such as TMJ and

migraines and other problems that they are now able to relate to

Plagiocephaly.

This article only talks about preventative measures and laughs off

any treatments after wards. It also talks about how Helmet Therapy

is useless and ineffective, but I invite you to visit a mothers group

that I am a part of where there are over 1300 mothers and fathers

from around the world and I would say that the majority of us who

have had their children banded have seen AMAZING results. Many of us

are like myself and were too late to have our children banded and

would do anything to go back and NOT LISTEN TO PEOPLE LIKE THE DOCTOR

IN THIS ARTICLE.

You are providing false information to mothers out there and making

their concern and need for their child to be well sound " nutty " as

this writer classified the thousands of us out there.

You will also find that insurance companies are now starting to cover

this cost as more and more this condition is becoming an epidemic of

sorts. This neuro surgeon who the writer quoted is not up to date

with current information nor current statistics and I wouldn't

recommend any mother with a child who has a flat head (plagiocephaly)

to see him.

He states we have to be practical - and we are - but what happens

when all the preventative methods he states in the article have been

done, and like so many mothers out there -mother nature wont correct

the problem on its own.

I would hope that you would take into consideration all this

information and realize that you are MIS-EDUCATING parents out there

that visit your site and trust your articles, and take down that

article or have one written about the new discoveries being made

about Positional Plagiocephaly.

Some interesting sites that back my complaint are

www.cappskids.org

www.parksolutions.com/plagio (my personal site)

and of course - home to over 1300 plagio parents, our support group

Plagiocephaly

Yours truly,

Popik