Re: I'm new here! Need your opinions please!

May 23, 2009

I was never told to reposition to help the plagio, really only his tort (I now

know they go hand in hand, so in a sense I was helping his plagio, but not as

much as I should have been). So I did repo as much as I could during the day and

put a wedge up against his head at night, but I wouldn't call anything I did

" aggressive. " And once he was released from PT for his tort at about 6 months

old or so, and he was sitting up on his own, I stopped all repo efforts. As my

husband loved to remind me, " the head pediatric neurosurgeon at Duke Hospital

said it would round out on it's own. " So it seemed stupid not to trust him. I

would say his head was at it's worst at 3-4 months old, and did get very

slightly better from the little bit of repo (I guess) by about 6 months old, but

there was little to no change between then and the time he was banded at 17

months old. All of his photos are in the Older Plagio Kids folder under Jake W.

Jake-2.5 (DOCBand Grad 9/08)

Jordan-5

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> > > We just got Brayden's head measured today and it is off by 14 MM. What

> > was your LOs off by? We're deciding on whether or not to get the helmet or

> > wait things out and see if it corrects. What do you ladies think? We're

> > still waiting to see if insurance will cover it. If it's under 1cm it's

> > considered cosmetic, and his is 1.4, so I'm hoping they'll cover it. Well,

> > please let me know ladies! Thanks!

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> > > P.S My son is almost 4 months old.

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