Daycare made the helmet way too tight...2 questions...

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I have no idea how long it was like this but the DOC Band had been cinched down

about an inch past where it normally settles onto her head. When I took the

helmet off I could trace the entire outline of the helmet around her head as a

dent in the skin and the entire area turned pinkish like the blood was returning

the surface. I called yesterday after getting home (and saw how tight the band

was) to see who was the last to care for my daughter's helmet but no one would

fess up to it. After 4 hours the dents were not so deep and the pink had only

faded to half of it's original color so I left the helmet off for the night and

everything looked normal this morning.

(1) How long should it have taken for these marks to go away? It seems to me

that because the marks took so long to fade then the helmet must have been

cinched down for quite some time.

and (2)What can I do to make the daycare providers realize how important it is

to care for the helmet correctly? I've given hand written instructions, the

papers from Cranial Technologies, wrote on her daily care sheet every day for

two weeks (we usually have the same three ladies) and also have written

abbreviated instructions on my daughter's general care sheet with mention of the

more detailed information in my daughter's cubby. I thought I was going

overboard with paranoia in all the places where I described her helmet care but

it seems like no one paid any attention to it.