Re: Tummy Time Bad and Do I Band?

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If insurance actually covers it I would take it while I could since

who knows if who you get to approve it 3 month down the road will. If

they don't I'd give it the 3 month since he's only 6 month and you

have time.

Albeit we went with ct but we waited 3 months at 6 month, not banding

till 9 month. We didn't see much improvement in that time (son was

crawling, pulling up and sitting at 6 month so we thought we might)

but waiting the 3 month didn't make a lot of difference. Though I

suppose had we done it earlier maybe we would have seen more

improvement but I'm not that sure about that. He was borderline

severe at 15, 15 and 17 and they expected to get him down to an 8 yet

they got him down to a 4,5 and 6 so better than they expected so not

sure it would have been better.

On 10/16/09, lindseytackett@... <lindseytackett@...> wrote:

> My son is 6 1/2 months now and we have finally seen the orthotist. He said

> that his condition was moderate (9mm) and that it was caused in the womb

> from being a twin and not being able to move around as much in there. We're

> waiting to hear back from insurance to see if they will cover a band, but

> the orthotist was NOT hopefully with a diagnosis of a " 9 " that they would.

>

> They told us that tummy time was actually the worst thing to do right now.

> The rational is, and it makes sense when you think about it, that if he's on

> his tummy and his nose is pointed down to the ground, gravity is pushing

> straight down on the flat part of his head. So basically even though his

> head is not being constricted/pushing against a solid object like the floor

> or a bouncer, etc., it's being pushed on by gravity which is heavy for the

> infant head. Instead, he strongly suggests only have him sitting up-right

> and " No Contact " by putting him in a walker, jumper-roo, exer-saucer, etc.

> He said that if we were to do this, in a coule of months he would probably

> have about a 30% decrease, which would put him at about a " 6 " which is

> within the normal range.

>

> Has anyone else ever had or heard of this? What would you do? I'm torn

> because we are totally okay with him getting the helmet and I'm all about

> fixing it while we can so that he won't have any embarassment, etc. when he

> gets older (he's probably going to be tall like his daddy and his head will

> always stick up above the crowd--very obvious if there's a flat spot).

> Also, his face doesn't have many problems from it, at least not yet. He

> mentioned something about his forehead--which I can't even see, and also one

> ear sits SLIGHTLY lower than the other but it truly is very slight.

>

> Would you band if insurance picks us up, or would you band regardless? Or

> is it better to just have " No Contact " for the next few months and not go

> through the hassle of the helmet?

>

> Thanks everyone,

> Lindsey

>

>

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