Re: [SPAM] New and Unsure

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Welcome to the board. My son recently graduated from his DOC band. He had plagio on the left side. Like yourself, we noticed things right around the time he was 2 months old. Our Dr. said that if we just reposition him to keep him off of his left side, things would even out with some time. At his 4 month check up he still was still flat on the left side. We were referred to Cranial Tech and he was rated to moderate to severe. However, CT left the decision up to us on whether or not we wanted to band him. Our major factor that made us go for the band was- 5 years from now, if his head didn't round out by itself, would we regret not banding him when we had the chance. As a mom, I wanted to do everything in my power, to ensure that I was doing the best I could for him. If you want to band your daughter, I would say go for it. I would find a Dr. in your area that would write an rx for you. What area are you in? I'm sure that there is probably someone on this board that is in the same area and could refer you to a good dr. that could help you out. You could also keep trying to do the repositioning with your daughter. I have also heard of quite a few success stories of people on this board that have done repositioning and have had great results. Since your daughter is only 5 months old, you still have some time. Bottom line, do what you feel what you need to do for your daughter. If you feel you need to band her than do I would go for it. I am glad that I put my son in the DOC band. He was in it 12 short weeks and now he has a beautiful round head.

Good luck.... keep us posted.

Lorie

Mom to Spencer 8 months old

DOC band GRAD 9/07-12/07

[sPAM] New and Unsure

I would appreciate any advise. I have an almost 5 month old daughter--at two months I noticed some flattening to the back of the right side of her head and that her ears were asymmetrical. I brought it to my pediatrician's attention--and he was mostly just concerned that her head was continuing to grow bigger and that she didn't have premature fusing. We went back one month later to check head circumference and her head was growing properly so his recommendation was that she would grow out of her flattening with time, no worries. But I continued to worry and got a second opinion from another pediatrician. The second pediatrician said toricollis and gave neck exercises instructions with a referral to cranial technologies--she told me I could go to cranial technololgies not because my daughter needs a band, but to get more specific stretching exercises. At Cranial Technologies she was rated as a low to moderate case--they didn't think torticollis was an issue,left the option to band up to me saying I could continue to keep placing her on her left side (keep her off of the flat side) or I could band for probably 8 weeks and get good results. I don't know what to do... Of course, I want to do what's best for my daughter. Also, they wont band her unless a pediatrician writes a rx for it, and we don't have a pediatrician who thinks its a good idea. My husband says I am pushing a non-issue. Should case be more severe for banding? Will she just grow out of this? I look at her now and I do think I see improvements, but at the same time I'm scared of giving it too much time and not being within the optimum banding window. I would be SO grateful for any helpful advise.