Re: Aidan graduated

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Congrats!!! That's great news! I can't wait until we have a message

like this to post...we're two weeks in. It's very encouraging to

hear of your success!!

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> > Well we took him to the doc on Wed and he has fully grown out of

his helmet and got

> another mm of growth in the past week. We may do one more helmet to

get him to exactly

> 2 standard deviations from normal. he is .75 away from that and if

we banded him it

> would be another 3 months for about 1 CM of growth so we are trying

to see if Insurance

> will pay ect. Our Ortho at CT told us she is really pleased with

his growth and we could go

> either way and not make a bad decision. He i snow rolling and

sitting up on his own so the

> only time he is on his back is when he sleeps- he is so use to

sleeping on his back that he

> will not sleep any other way even though he can roll- so I am

worried about that. Also the

> 1st night he did not sleep well, since he is use to having the

helmet on to lean back on..

> anyone have any suggestions about sleeping- I do not want

regression. Also I took him

> back to our Ped that suggested at 3 months to get him in a helmet

and she told me

> > it looks great and that is she were meeting him for the 1st time

she would not

> recommend him for a band now-so that feels great- he is not perfect

but he also has my

> husbands head shape and our ortho told us some of head shape comes

down to genetics. I

> will post pics soon but am so happy we did it- he loves so great

and I love kissing his

> sweet head again! However I thought he looked so cute in his helmet

too :-)

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> > Thanks for all your support- this was a really great experience

for us and we are so

> happy we did it so early and have no regrets- if you are thinking

about banding but not

> sure- do it, it is so worth it and is harder on us then them- I

think he misses his hat :-)

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> > Mom to Aidan DOC Band graduate 2/12/2009 was in it for 7 weeks

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