Re: New to Board, insurance

[Guest guest]

We had an HMO (Kaiser) and the specialist who prescribed the band could check

online very quickly to see what our coverage was. However it can be harder to

find out. It just depends how well organized your insurance company is.

-christine

sydney, 5 yrs, starband grad

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> > Hi,

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> > My son is 10 wks. His pediatrician pointed out a possible problem with his

> headshape a couple of weeks ago. I keep looking at it, and I feel it's

> getting worse. She recommended having him turn to the opposite side when

> sleeping/playing. (it appears that his occipital lobe is indented, and the

> temporal lobe protrudes over it more on his left side than his right when

> looking at him from behind or above. But, I also notice that he's got these

> two bumps developing on either side of his head. If you look at him from the

> back, they look uneven in height. I've been feeling that I'm a bad mom.

> First of all, he was in a bassinet that we borrowed for the first couple of

> weeks. We received it from a friend, and I didn't realize how terribly

> flimsy the mattress was, then I was putting him in the natural arch of the

> bassinet, and his head was on a support rod that i ended up feeling through

> the mattress. we've moved him to his crib - i would have done this from the

> start, had i known this problem could develop. also, we've been using the

> britax chaperone, and i fear that maybe that is contributing to the problem.

> it's extremely confining. there are so many things i would have done

> differently...had i known... (even reducing swing/bouncy seat/activity mat

> time) (PS, why don't the doctors/hospitals give you information about

> preventing this at the outset? I'm a new parent - it makes sense that the

> skull bones would be malleable, what-with the fontanel, but why didn't they

> say anything?). at this point, it sounds like they don't want to see him

> until he's 4 mos. nearly everyday this week, i've been tempted to call and

> see if he can go in earlier for another checkup of his headshape. if other

> people look at him, they would consider it mild, if they saw anything. but,

> i'm his mom, and i'm seeing it all the time. plus, when i breastfeed, he's

> at the right angle for me to see these points forming on either side of his

> head. what should i do? wait till 4 mos? w ill this get better? everybody

> tells me that, but i just don't trust them (they haven't dealt with this

> before). ps, he was born via c-section & had the most beautifully round head

> (my friend called it a 'Charlie Brown' head). :-(

> > he's not too fond of tummy time & has been rolling out of it for a couple

> of weeks. i read something about putting a towel underneath his chest so he

> continues tummy time, and that has been helping.

> > Thanks in advance!

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