A second band??? Please read

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My baby boy started wearing his DOC band on March 1st...he was five

months old at that time. We went for regular adjustment appointments

every week at Cranial Technologies, and we saw tremendous improvement

within the first four weeks. In fact, at our one-month appointment on

April 2nd, our orthotist said he thought it looked like would

only need another month to six weeks in the band.

Much to my surprise, when we went for our adjustment appointment on

April 9th, he told us that it looked like he would need it longer

that he had indicated a week before. He also said that a second band

would make more of a difference than keeping the first band on, and

that he may recommend re-casting him for a new band. He wants us to

come back on the 23rd, and then we will decide whether to put him in

a second band. The head change did slow down a little from the fourth

to the fifth week, but I am surprised that the orthotist feels he may

need a second band. There is still at least six weeks of wear left in

the original band.

Has anyone ever heard of a second band so soon (not even two months

after the first one has been fitted?) Has anyone had any experience

with a second band making a rapid change in the first month (like the

first one usually does)? I would be more that happy to do a second

band if we can achieve as much of a change as we did in the first

month with his current band.

's mom, Donna in Austin