New and Unsure

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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.