Guest guest Posted August 17, 2009 Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 We went to the park this weekend and had a picnic there. We sat on the grass right where the tracks of the little choo-choo train go. The girls love to see it pass by and always wave bye-bye to the passengers. After our picnic lunch, we went for a ride ourselves on the train. Guess what? As we passed the area where just 10-15 minutes prior we were having lunch, another family was sitting there with a baby in a stroller wearing a DOC band! I wanted so bad to go back to that spot and have a conversation with the family, but the girls wanted a ride in the carousel instead, so we did that. Then just after that, we went for ice cream and just sat outside the icecream shop. Soraya, my oldest was taking her sweet time eating hers in 90+ degrees weather, so I had to help her. A family of four passed us by. One of their boy was 3 or 4, the other was in the stroller 10 to 12 months old. I don't like to stare but it seemed to me like the baby had brachy. He was pretty bald so it wasn't too hard to spot. Then I looked at his brother and his head was fine. By then they had passed me and I had to revert my attention back to Soraya who, as expected, was making a mess eating her ice cream. My husband who was a little further down the path keeping an eye on Maysa who was going her own way came back my way and said: "Did you see that baby? he reminded me so much of Maysa when she was a baby". My husband never sees anything like that so for him to say that means that the baby really did have a misshapen head. Why all this story? Because I keep kicking myself for not pointing it out to his parents and educate them about plagio/brachy. I don't even mind if they had gotten mad or if they had gotten offended. I'll probably never see these people again. I really really wish I had said something because I still have that picture in my head of that little boy in his stroller with a head as flat as a board and I wonder if he'll ever get help. I hope that this family meets up with the one with the baby in the DOC band and strikes up a conversation... Leila, Maysa, 19 mo, DOC band Grad 5.26.09 www.mymaysa.wordpress.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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