Re: what is the outcome in adulthood

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Rob,

There is a light at the end of the tunnel! I think there are 2 lights

acutally. The first one is EDUCATION!! All parents not just new ones

need to be educated about plagio, before their baby is born. I have 5

children and never heard of plagio until my youngest developed

plagio, due to having torticollis(tight neck muscle). The importance

of tummy time and repositioning need to be addressed, to every

parent!!

The other light I think is the fact that there is help!! It may be

very hard to get it, but it's available. It takes a lot of us, too

many of us, a long time to get any help. I know it took me months.

But I wasn't about to give up. If the parent feels strongly enough

about it, they can get the help their child needs.

PS my Mom too repositioned me, so my head woulnd't go flat. She also

taped my ears back so they wouldn't stick out! LOL

> Thanks for the reply.

>

> I am 38 years old and my Mom has told me that as a baby both I and

my brother

> were " swaddled " , ie wrapt in blankets to stop us moving around too

much, and

> she put us to sleep on our sides BUT she swapped us from side to

side as she

> says if babys were left on one side too much they had flat heads on

that side

> !!!!!!

>

> Sounds like plagio type symptoms to me and thats nearly 40 years

ago.

>

> If she is right, there must have been Moms that did not swap their

babies

> sleeping sides and if they knew the problems about sleeping in one

spot that

> long ago why oh why didn't the medical profession warn us new

parents.

>

> I asked my Mom why she did not say anything earlier and she said

that a) all

> the advice now is to sleep on backs so she didn't want to interfere

and

> until we pointed out s flat spot she hadn't noticed it. I can

> understand this as it seems that most parents like ourselves do not

acually

> notice the problem until it is quite severe.

>

> For example I told our hairdresser about our problems (she has a 10

month old

> child and is very very protective over him) and she had not heard

of plagio,

> BUT a week later she called to tell us that she had checked her son

and the

> back of his head is markedly flat - she had never noticed - and is

now making

> an appointment to see her doctor too.

>

> I assume you are in the US so maybe the sleeping advice when you

were a baby

> was different to ours, or my Moms anyway, but it is interesting

don't you

> think.

>

> As you may be able to guess, I am desperately looking for a light

at the end

> of the tunnel.

>

> Thanks again for the reply, let me know if you have any more

thoughts.

>

> Best Wishes

>

>

> Rob