Re: Risk factor - big baby boy?

October 11, 2009

When I took to his apppointment with the cranial surgeon, I was told that

low birth weight and preemies are also at higher risk for plagio because they

tend to have even softer skull bones than a full term baby. Even a baby born

only three weeks early such as are at a higher risk.

Jessie

> >

> > It doesn't really play out with my kids either. Aidan was the larger

> > baby. Although only 7 lb 2 oz at birth, he was 14 lbs by 2 months and

> > 20 lbs by six months. His head is the ideal shape. was only 5

> > lb 5 oz at birth and was only 14 lbs at 6 months and 18 pounds at a

> > year. At her two year appointment, she still weighs less than her

> > brother did at 12 months. As infants, her head was below the 1st

> > percentile and her brothers was at the 90th. She's the one that had

> > the brachy.

> >

> > For us, I think that there were multiple risk factors, but some of it

> > was the second child issue. Because we had another toddler around

> > (they're 16 months apart), we had to put her down more often. Also, as

> > I've mentioned previously, she had reflux, colic and food allergies

> > that caused her a lot of pain. When she slept flat on her back, she

> > woke up every 20 minutes throughout the night. If I swaddled her and

> > put her in the carseat, I had a lot more time in between awakenings.

> > So the advice from the nurse was to keep doing this. Even with doing

> > this, there were many nights that I was up 7 or 8 times with her. I

> > took her out of the car seat at night around 3 months old (after we'd

> > figured out the allergy and reflux issues) and stopped swaddling

> > around 7 or 8 months old.

> >

> > So, she slept pretty much exclusively either in her car seat or in my

> > arms until I went back to work. At 6 weeks, it was pretty much always

> > in a car seat, swing, etc. because the day care provider couldn't hold

> > her as much and she'd scream bloody murder in any other position. In

> > fact, it was so bad that she was kicked out of her first daycare at 10

> > weeks old. The lady said she'd never taken care of such a difficult

> > baby and she just couldn't handle the stress of her crying so much.

> > Interestingly enough, it was at about 10 weeks that I first noticed

> > that her head was getting flat. It was still perfectly round when I

> > went back to work at 6 weeks.

> >

> > I do have to say that the issue of not having as much room may apply

> > to because my amniotic fluid was very low for at least the

> > last three weeks. And the largest I every measured was 30 weeks along.

> > So, even though she was little, she may not have had enough room.

> > was also born at 37 weeks and her brother was born at 41 weeks

> > so being in there longer was probably helpful to him as well.

> >

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> >

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