Re: Re: Disappointed: Head growth, but no diagonal change...

[Guest guest]

Yes, if there are no scanner, that concerns me. Will you be getting a

scan?

In terms of no improvement in 4 weeks with hand measurements, that is

completely possible because of measurement error. However, I would

have expected some improvement, just not necessarily enough to show up

with hand measurements. We had a 4 week interval around 15 months

where even the scan failed to detect improvement. Then our next

appointment, there was detectable improvement again.

-Kathy

christineashok wrote:

I always recommend taking your own photos to track progress. Take

them in the bath if he has hair, and take them every week or two. That

makes it easier to see changes. I found looking from the top down is

best, but it depends on your baby's head shape. I hope you are seeing

progress but not sure how your ortho is not. Of course it is possible

but should be the case if the band is fitting well and he is growing.

Does your ortho think the fit is good? Sounds like he doesn't have a

starscanner?

-christine

sydney, 4 yrs, starband grad

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> So it's been 4 weeks now since Brody's been in his StarBand, and

while I feel like we've seen a change, the orthotist took hand

measurements yesterday indicating that his head grew 2-3 mm, but the

plagio # is still at 8... Is that possible? I feel like if the head

grows, it should be growing the right direction, am I wrong? I'm trying

to be OK with possible human error in measuring, but after 4 weeks I

really expected to see some significant change in the #. Granted, he's

"mild," but for a mom who's dying to get this thing off of my baby's

head, not seeing a number go down is really discouraging... How can I

tell if this contraption is really working the way it's supposed to

when there's no progression?

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

Let us know how the scan goes in 2 weeks. I usually asked for a

printout of the scan. That way I could study them at home. You should

ask for one showing both the original scan and new one. I would think

the scan should show some improvement in 2 weeks from now. If not, I

might start to get concerned. Don't be disappointed if it is not a

lot, since this can take time.

Good luck.

Kathy

wrote:

I really do need to take some pictures to compare on a weekly

basis. After all of this, I'm starting to wonder now if the change that

I "saw" was all in my head. In any case, I'm trying not to take a hand

measurement too seriously and chalk lack of improvement up to the fact

that 2-3mm growth in 4 weeks really isn't much. My son is 7 months old

(someone asked that earlier) so he's got to go through a growth spurt

sometime soon...I just hope I haven't missed out on a big one before we

banded. We'll get it scanned in two weeks so hopefully that will show

more improvement. Fingers crossed.

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> > > So it's been 4 weeks now since Brody's been in his

StarBand, and

> > while I feel like we've seen a change, the orthotist took

hand

> > measurements yesterday indicating that his head grew 2-3 mm,

but the

> > plagio # is still at 8... Is that possible? I feel like if

the head

> > grows, it should be growing the right direction, am I wrong?

I'm

> > trying to be OK with possible human error in measuring, but

after 4

> > weeks I really expected to see some significant change in the

#.

> > Granted, he's "mild," but for a mom who's dying to get this

thing off

> > of my baby's head, not seeing a number go down is really

> > discouraging... How can I tell if this contraption is really

working

> > the way it's supposed to when there's no progression?

> > >

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