Questions about graduating from Band

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I'm hoping a few of you will take a look at my son's photos (Our Plagio Babies -

C). His are at the end... " Cade M " . We have our weekly appointment at Cranial

Tech on Wednesday and it will be our last one if we don't decide to proceed with

a second DOC Band. He's outgrown the first one in 7 weeks. We think his head

looks great...but want to feel OK about stopping where we are. His mid-face

asymmetry went from 10 to 4. Skull-base asymmetry went from 8 to 4. Cranial

vault asymmetry only went from 17 to 10. (We're praying for single digits this

week.) When they measured last week, we thought for sure his CV would be closer

to normal range b/c it looks so good to us. We have mainly watched the back

right side, where it looked so bad in the beginning -- and that looks really

good (we think). But I think the area CT would like to see more improvement is

left forehead. Honestly, we haven't paid much attention to that b/c the back

side has had our full attention for so long! I know some people start their band

with a CV number of 10, so I wonder if we're crazy for stopping there. We feel

like the area that still needs improvement isn't obvious to someone not looking

for a problem...but the numbers are throwing us for a loop. I'd appreciate a few

comments on his pictures.

Thanks.

Jill

Cade's mom (7 mo., DOC Band 6/18/09)

Austin

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I think that the back of his head look great but I see from the same picture that Crhistine pointed out where the front left part of his head is not well rounded yet. He is only 7 months, and I think that a second band would most likely fix what's left to be fixed.

There has been such great improvement from the before pictures!

Leila,

Maysa, 18.5 mo, DOC band Grad 5.29.09

www.mymaysa.wordpress.com

From: jillmckay@... <jillmckay@...>Subject: Questions about graduating from BandPlagiocephaly Date: Monday, August 3, 2009, 9:08 PM

I'm hoping a few of you will take a look at my son's photos (Our Plagio Babies - C). His are at the end..."Cade M". We have our weekly appointment at Cranial Tech on Wednesday and it will be our last one if we don't decide to proceed with a second DOC Band. He's outgrown the first one in 7 weeks. We think his head looks great...but want to feel OK about stopping where we are. His mid-face asymmetry went from 10 to 4. Skull-base asymmetry went from 8 to 4. Cranial vault asymmetry only went from 17 to 10. (We're praying for single digits this week.) When they measured last week, we thought for sure his CV would be closer to normal range b/c it looks so good to us. We have mainly watched the back right side, where it looked so bad in the beginning -- and that looks really good (we think). But I think the area CT would like to see more improvement is left forehead. Honestly, we haven't paid much attention to that b/c the back side has had our full

attention for so long! I know some people start their band with a CV number of 10, so I wonder if we're crazy for stopping there. We feel like the area that still needs improvement isn't obvious to someone not looking for a problem...but the numbers are throwing us for a loop. I'd appreciate a few comments on his pictures. Thanks.JillCade's mom (7 mo., DOC Band 6/18/09)Austin