Re: Identical twins, one has flat forehead, anyone use a helmet for this?

June 14, 2009

can you post some pictures? Usually not just the forehead is flat. Is her head

higher than her sisters? Can you post a side view and top view (looking down). I

don't think there is anything wrong with wanting her head to look " right " .

Plagio is really common with twins because they are cramped in the uterus.

-christine

sydney, 3 yrs, starband grad

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> I have a weird question, I have 4 month old identical twin girls but they look

different because one was head down and one was breech. the one that was head

down got her head shaped differently from being wedged in my pelvis for so long.

They looked nothing alike at birth, the one that was head down had/has a longer

face and her forehead looks alot flatter. She doesn't have a flat head in the

back, only her forehead looks kinda flat to me.. it really really bothers me

that my twins are technically identical twins because they came from the same

egg, but they look so different because of their positions in the womb, am i

being shallow by wanting them to look more alike? I just don't want the one

with the flatter forehead to grow up being known as the twin with the weird

looking head. My husband says I'm being silly, but this really bothers me,

especially when people react weirdly when I tell them that my babies are

identical twins, they say things like, " oh, they don't look identical, that one

looks different " it bugs me alot. Has anyone ever used a helmet for a baby with

issues other than having a flat head in the back????

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June 15, 2009

I also think you should try to post some pictures. I can't really picture what

you are talking about. What I AM picturing, is something like brachycephaly, but

the flatness is in the front. Is that what it seems to be? If so, I do think a

helmet could help. Is there a Cranial Technologies near you? If so, you could go

in for a free consultation. Try going to their website www.cranialtech.com and

see if there's a location near you. I'm not sure if other places do this as

well. Maybe ask your pediatrician for a referral to another place if there is no

CT near you.

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June 15, 2009

Yes, my DS had extremely severe brachy and plagio. He had a whole host of

problems and one of them was a flat forehead, particularly on the left side,

where it dropped off, rather than rounding out like the other side. He started

the Doc Band at 4.5 months and I would say within 2.5 months, his forehead is

rounded, looks like the other side and is normal now. He is still wearing a 2nd

Band for the flatness on the back of his head but in terms of the asymetries of

his ears, eye and jaw, have almost all been resovled. We received great results

b/c we banded him early so I think maybe a free consultation would be a good

idea and your DPT can tell you what they think.

Good luck!

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> I also think you should try to post some pictures. I can't really picture what

you are talking about. What I AM picturing, is something like brachycephaly, but

the flatness is in the front. Is that what it seems to be? If so, I do think a

helmet could help. Is there a Cranial Technologies near you? If so, you could go

in for a free consultation. Try going to their website www.cranialtech.com and

see if there's a location near you. I'm not sure if other places do this as

well. Maybe ask your pediatrician for a referral to another place if there is no

CT near you.

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June 17, 2009

I will try to get some pictures posted within the next day or so. But, yeah

just her forehead is flat and the back of her head is not as round as the

other's but it is not really flat, her twin's forehead is nice and rounded and

she has a cute round head overall. The one with the flatter forehead does have

a higher head than her sister's, her face is kind of long looking too.

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> > I have a weird question, I have 4 month old identical twin girls but they

look different because one was head down and one was breech. the one that was

head down got her head shaped differently from being wedged in my pelvis for so

long. They looked nothing alike at birth, the one that was head down had/has a

longer face and her forehead looks alot flatter. She doesn't have a flat head in

the back, only her forehead looks kinda flat to me.. it really really bothers me