Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 As much as possible during waking hours you want your son resting on the prominent side of the back of his head, resting on the bulge. If he is leaning on his left side then all he is doing is holding in the flat spot. You want to provide pressure agains the bulge so that as his head is growing the bluge is being held while the flattened area catches up. You also want to give him as much tummy time as possible. And tummy time does not necessarily mean lop him down on his tummy and leave it at that. There are a lot of things you can do with him to spice up tummy time for a baby who doesn't like being on his tummy. Please check the Cranial Tech website. They have a phenomenal online brochure with tummy time tips for different ages. During sleeping time, there are two philosophies on how to position the baby's head. One theory says place the child to sleep on his side so that the flat side is down towards the mattress. The thought process behind it is that gravity will pull the growth of the head downward. I personally don't buy that (I am no biology major but it seems to me that people grow taller and gravity doesn't make us grow shirter). My fear would also be that during the night the baby would roll his head right back onto the flat spot and continue to flatten it. The other philosophy is to have the baby sleep on his side or tipped up a little towards the side where the bulge is. Again, the mattress provides a holding point for the head and the growth will come where the head is not being held in place (mattress against head). Whichever method you choose, I wish you the best of luck with it. Please look in out File section and click on " repositioning Headquarters. " There is a lot of information there, and you are welcome to call me out on the board or email me directly if you have any questions (res103198 ). I repositioned my daughter from the time she was 3.5 months old. We had great success with it. You can see ser pictures in the photose section Under Before and After/Repositioned/ S. Good luck and let us know how it is going. Becky, Repositioning Moderator , repo grad > > My son is 5 months, he has torticollis and is in therapy twice a week to stretch the muscles. His forehead buldges on the tort side which is the right side and his head buldges in the back on the same side (the right side). However there is some flatness on the front right side too. We have been to the neurologist and he said that his case is very minor and he does not think that it warrents a helmet but is going to send us to a neuro surgeon just to get a second opinion. In the meanwhile I want to work on repositioning and want to make sure I am putting him on the correct side to help with his misshapen head. I have been placing him on his left side but it almost seems that I should be placing him on the right because of the buldge in the back of his head. I can post a picture if that will help. I was able to find a pic in the photo album titled Before and After Pictures/ Repositioned that best represents Logan's however his forehead also buldges in the front on is his right side which is also her right side. The picture is pic #35 titled Kadie week2. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I was looking for some posts reguarding the matter but the database is so big so even some diection as to where or what to search to get some helpful info would be great. > > Thanks, Tara > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 13, 2009 Report Share Posted March 13, 2009 It might help to see a photo, because I'm a little confused as to how his forehead and the back is bulging on the same side. My son had tort and his right forehead was bulged and his back right was flat, so the back left bulged. Typically, that's how it works, whatever side is bulging in the front, it's opposite in back, not the same, which is what gives the head the parallelagram look. My first instinct is to tell you to rest him on the left side, but I'm not sure until I see a picture. In our files section, there is some repo information if you haven't found it yet: Plagiocephaly/files/Repositioning%20Headqua\ rters/ Hope that helps to start with. Jake-2.5 (DOCBand Grad 9/08) Jordan-5 > > My son is 5 months, he has torticollis and is in therapy twice a week to stretch the muscles. His forehead buldges on the tort side which is the right side and his head buldges in the back on the same side (the right side). However there is some flatness on the front right side too. We have been to the neurologist and he said that his case is very minor and he does not think that it warrents a helmet but is going to send us to a neuro surgeon just to get a second opinion. In the meanwhile I want to work on repositioning and want to make sure I am putting him on the correct side to help with his misshapen head. I have been placing him on his left side but it almost seems that I should be placing him on the right because of the buldge in the back of his head. I can post a picture if that will help. I was able to find a pic in the photo album titled Before and After Pictures/ Repositioned that best represents Logan's however his forehead also buldges in the front on is his right side which is also her right side. The picture is pic #35 titled Kadie week2. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I was looking for some posts reguarding the matter but the database is so big so even some diection as to where or what to search to get some helpful info would be great. > > Thanks, Tara > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 16, 2009 Report Share Posted March 16, 2009 Your situation is very common for many of us here. This is heart of the whole debate as to whether banding is needed or not. For some babies, the answer is much more difficult. It really boils down to what you think is right for your own child and you. My own son was borderline needing a helmet. We tried repo from 2 months onwards and I believe we were quite aggressive with it. He didn't get worse, but he didn't get better either. I had him learn to sit up by 5 months and he was never allowed on his back, except for sleeping, after 5 months of age. He got his helmet at 7.5 months after I had finally decided things weren't improving as quickly as I would have liked. Now, I wish I had banded back at 5 months. Our neurologist basically said that banding would give faster improvements for our son. If we did nothing, eventually his headshape would improve at around 2 years of age... up to 5 years of age. If that is true, I didn't want to wait that long to find out if that would happen or not. The neurologist said that we could basically achieve the same results in a band that we would get from his head naturally rounding out by age 2 - 5. I decided to act now. Oh... and by wearing the helmet, it was a huge sigh of relief for me. I could actually sleep at night knowing that my son's head wasn't getting flatter by the way he was sleeping. He has worn is for 1.5 months so far and as everyone else seems to say on here, the time flies and the time in the helmet is pretty short. All the best in making a decision! > > My son is 5 months, he has torticollis and is in therapy twice a week to stretch the muscles. His forehead buldges on the tort side which is the right side and his head buldges in the back on the same side (the right side). However there is some flatness on the front right side too. We have been to the neurologist and he said that his case is very minor and he does not think that it warrents a helmet but is going to send us to a neuro surgeon just to get a second opinion. In the meanwhile I want to work on repositioning and want to make sure I am putting him on the correct side to help with his misshapen head. I have been placing him on his left side but it almost seems that I should be placing him on the right because of the buldge in the back of his head. I can post a picture if that will help. I was able to find a pic in the photo album titled Before and After Pictures/ Repositioned that best represents Logan's however his forehead also buldges in the front on is his right side which is also her right side. The picture is pic #35 titled Kadie week2. Any help or advise would be greatly appreciated. I was looking for some posts reguarding the matter but the database is so big so even some diection as to where or what to search to get some helpful info would be great. > > Thanks, Tara > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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