Re: Sleeping off of the spot tips wanted

[Guest guest]

Hi Dan & welcome to our group!

It looks like you are Canadien perhaps?

That's great you can keep her off her flatside while awake. Keeping

babies off their flat side while sleeping can be difficult, but it

can be done.

Check out www.plagiocephaly.org/support - then " repositioning " for

good tips.

I also suggest taking weekly photos of your daughter's head to

compare each week to. This will give you a good idea of any

improvement.

Your daughter is at a good younger age to get good results with

repositioning yet. Good luck.

I wish I could offer help about breastfeeding, but I really can't.

I'm sure other members will offer tips there.

Welcome again to our group....please keep us updated on your

repositioning.

Debbie Abby's mom DOCGrad

MI

> Hi,

>

> Our 11-week old has a flat spot on the left side of her head and,

> upon seeking the advice of our pediatrician, we're in the process

of

> trying a repositioning treatment (for now). I have already found

that

> we can keep her off of the spot all day for the most part, but

we're

> left with two problems:

> -SLEEPING: Since she definitely does still favour looking to her

> left, we find it very hard to position her in her bed for sleeping.

> Does anyone have any tips for how you can position the baby so that

> she looks the other way, or at least straight up, while still

> sleeping on her back and not on her side?

>

> -BREASTFEEDING: is there anyway to reduce the pressure from the

> pillow on the baby's head during breastfeeding?

>

> Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Dan

[Guest guest]

Dan -

We didn't have much luck keeping Dane off his flat spot while he was

sleeping because of his tort. There are some different products in

the bookmarks section. The Snugglebud butterfly looks pretty nice.

I assume the breastfeeding pillow is a boppy? I use one most of the

time, but I usually still cradle the baby in my arms, rather than

lay him directly on the pillow. That way I could support his head

off the flat spot. I would support the lower portion of his

chin/cheek area, if that makes sense, so that the flat spot wasn't

resting anywhere.

Dane's mom DOC Grad

--- In Plagiocephaly@y..., " puckinnet2002 " <puckinnet2002@y...>

wrote:

> Hi,

>

> Our 11-week old has a flat spot on the left side of her head and,

> upon seeking the advice of our pediatrician, we're in the process

of

> trying a repositioning treatment (for now). I have already found

that

> we can keep her off of the spot all day for the most part, but

we're

> left with two problems:

> -SLEEPING: Since she definitely does still favour looking to her

> left, we find it very hard to position her in her bed for

sleeping.

> Does anyone have any tips for how you can position the baby so

that

> she looks the other way, or at least straight up, while still

> sleeping on her back and not on her side?

>

> -BREASTFEEDING: is there anyway to reduce the pressure from the

> pillow on the baby's head during breastfeeding?

>

> Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Dan

[Guest guest]

Hi Dan,

There is different sleep positioner out there that can help you. You

can see some here:

http://www.cappskids.org/CAPPSRepositioning.htm

http://www.geocities.com/alittleone2000/plagiopage_articles.htm

Some parents have also used foam wedges or a rolled receiving blanket,

a tube sock filled with rice that you placed behind the shoulder of

your daughter on the side you don't want her to rest on. If she still

rolls over it or wiggles out of it, you can sew or velcro the sock or

wedge directly to a onesie.

You can also check the archives for other tips (post #39131 is on a

similar subject).

As for your breastfeeding question, I always breastfeed on a boppy

pillow, making sure my son's head was more to the side than on the

back. It worked for us.

Congratulations on " catching " the plagio so early, your daughter is at

such a young age, that you should see great results with the

repositioning. My son was at a similar age when we started

repositioning him and his plagio is mostly corrected without needing a

helmet. Feel free to check out his story and pictures on his

website:

http://www.geocities.com/alittleone2000/plagiopage.htm

Good luck,

Annick

Mom to (repo grad)

Mtl, Can.

> Hi,

>

> Our 11-week old has a flat spot on the left side of her head and,

> upon seeking the advice of our pediatrician, we're in the process of

> trying a repositioning treatment (for now). I have already found

that

> we can keep her off of the spot all day for the most part, but we're

> left with two problems:

> -SLEEPING: Since she definitely does still favour looking to her

> left, we find it very hard to position her in her bed for sleeping.

> Does anyone have any tips for how you can position the baby so that

> she looks the other way, or at least straight up, while still

> sleeping on her back and not on her side?

>

> -BREASTFEEDING: is there anyway to reduce the pressure from the

> pillow on the baby's head during breastfeeding?

>

> Any help or info would be greatly appreciated.

>

> Thanks,

>

> Dan