Cranial height

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Hi there! I was writing to tell you that yes, it can occasionally

happen. My son was in a bad local helmet that flattened the back of

his head and projected the growth to the top of his head. When we

went to the Doc band, our band was just a typical plagio band, and

that made me concerned, because I really felt like the area that

needed to be addressed was the top of his head. But they told me

that his height should decrease as pressure was relieved from the

back of his head. He was in his Doc about a month, and I basically

was 100% certain that his head had gotten a little higher - because

his head was still growing, you know? My head, while

proportionately the same as when I was younger, is taller overall -

you know what I'm saying? So if his sides were being held, and the

front was being held, what was there to keep the top from continuing

to grow - to me it only made sense. I basically had a serious

crazily worried time, where I wrote to the president of CT, and they

ended up taking pictures, and then rebanding, basically due to my

concern. They said that they could not see any height increase in

the pictures, but I could then, and still can when I look at those

pictures. I got in touch, then, with another woman from AZ whose

son's forehead actually grew upward on one side; and even CT could

see that. I think that it doesn't happen to most kids, but some it

can, for some reason. I also, in a lot of CT pictures, see a slight

increase in overall forehead tallness, above ear tallness - that

most kids can afford. When babies slept on their tummies, their

heads were taller, as I discovered looking at old baby magazines.

If the discrepancy bothers you when she is done with the band, I

recommend something called NCR that is done by a few chiropractors

around the US; it involves adjustment of the sphenoid bone using

endonasal balloons, and I would be glad to give you more information

if you wanted it. We took at 22 months, and saw rounding in

the back of his head. It can relieve compression that a band can

cause, and I really see it being able to correct a slight height

difference at her age. The younger the better.

Feel free to email me - best wishes to you and your baby!

Kentucky

mom to , 23 months, 2 months in a bad local band, several

months in 2 different Docbands, and a little time in a Hanger band