Re: Living with the guilt.

October 17, 2009

Completely agree.....our daughter has had no problems at all! Granted it's very

early, but the first fews days and nights were what I was most fearful of.

has never had a red spot, no heat rash, no problems sleeping...very

happy camper, thus far.

Good luck!

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> > > I'm so glad I posted this. I've gotten a fair amount of responses and

that's great. I knew when posting that the types of replies might vary and they

have and that's great too.

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> > > You asked about Jakes numbers. His initial scan on 2.10.09 was CVA 12mm

and CI 96%. He was 4 months old. His final scan was on 4.21.09 and was CVA 1mm

and CI 91%.

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> > > He was only in the helmet for about 5 weeks and we were so happy that the

plagio was gone. The ortho noted at the time that his CI was still high but as I

said we chose to stop the banding. The main reason that we stopped was that Jake

started rolling over in his sleep and sleeping on his face. I slept in his room,

every night for 2-3 weeks and slept little if at all, I was terrified that he

would suffocate. He would tilt his head due to the band and push his nose into

the mattress.

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> > > At the time I wanted more correction, but thought I would rather have a

wide headed kid than a dead one. Now I find my self saying...you should have

fought the sleep deprivation a few more weeks and missed a few more days of

work, so that his head could be more normal.

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> > > I emailed his ortho yesterday and I'm going to get his rescanned since

it's been over 6 months.

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> > > Thanks, Dawn (Mom to Jake)

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