Re: Inutero Plagio- Carol....H

October 25, 2005

Yes, my Hannah was banded for severe inutero plagio. It was obvious

immediately after her birth, though my OB said it would fix itself

w/in a couple days or weeks. She also had folded ears. She sat

every low on my pelvic bone and they told me her head was

essentially an imprint of my pelvic bone. Even at my early 4month

ultrasound they could not get a head circumference on her b/c she

was so low. When I went back a month later for them to try again it

was the same way. I have learned that inutero plagio often has more

challenges than other plagio. In Hannah's case she didn't start w/a

round head and then get plagio (correctly formed bones just molded

out of shape from external pressure), her head actually grew the

wrong way in the first place. Some of the bone plates in her head

are actually deformed. Even after she wore two helmets and her head

was quite round from above, she still had deformation in some of her

bones that was not correctable with the helmet. On her website

old, lol) picture that has her one year picuture beside it. At that

age she had graduated from two helmets and looked round from above,

but you can see how from the front she still had a shape similar to

the one she was born with. That up high asymmetry have her kind of

a lima bean shape. Her head seemed to have a tendency to grow in

that non-round shape--after wearing two helmets she regressed and

four mos later wore a third. There is really nothing they can do

about the inutero positioning, just something you have to deal

with.

, mom to Hannah, DOCgrad

Cape Cod, Ma

> >

> > Anyone who's child had inutero Plagio....how long did it take to

> diagnose,

> > was it due to fetal positioning, should the doctor have known

the

> skull was

> > receiving too much pressure? Would love to hear another's

> experience!

> > Lia

> > Mother of -6months moderate Plasia w/ Tort (no band yet)

> > Sussex, NJ

> >

>

October 25, 2005