Our appt. didn't go so well.......

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Hello,

Well, Carson had his appointment with the ped. on the 17th, and to

be quite honest, I'm not happy at all. She didn't even really look

at his head which is why I thought we were there!(he has a jitter in

his left arm that she was testing and concentrated on that the WHOLE

time. I didn't even know that we were there for that! My family dr.

said that he was fine, but I guess better safe than sorry........)

Anyway, she told us that lots of babies are coming in with flat

heads because of he back to sleep program. She said he doesn't have

tort (whick I knew already) and therefore he's fine! She said it

will round out and if it doesn't his hair will cover it! She also

said there is no medical side effects of having a flat head and that

it is purely cosmetic if we opt to treat and if we opt for treatment

we have to see someone else (at least she was nice about that,

offering to refer us) but that we would have to go to CALGARY which

is BULL!!(I'm in Barrie, Ontario, just North of Toronto where Sick

Kids is and I know we can go there! A g/f of mines dd had cranio and

was operated on there, so she's full of it lol!)

I was so pissed off that she didn't even feel his head, didn't want

to see any pictures we brought (when we first arrived I told her

that I had brought some pics and she said, oh thats nice, really

snotty) and wasn't really open to me giving her any information

about him, she pretty much cut me off! I was trying to tell her that

Carson slept in his carseat for the first 2 months of his life (i

know thats bad, but my older son slept in it for 4 months and his

head is round! lol) then my family dr. noticed the flatness so we

moved him to his crib wher he slpet on his SIDE (rotating of course)

for the next few months until he started to roll over in his crib.

It wasnt till he started to roll over which was about 1 .5 months

ago that he started to lay on his back to sleep!

I told her all this and it's like it went in once ear and out the

other!! She did say when she sees him again in February about his

arm that she might look at his head again to see if it's changed

then she may do some tests. I dont want to wait any longer, he

almost 7 months old and if she would have looks at the pics I

brought she would see the progression!! I have been repoing him

since he was 2 months old and it's still flat!

I called my family doctor right away to get a second opinion (he's

nice so I'm sure he'll agree) but he is on Holidays, so I will have

to wait until the new year.

I've been trying to collect as much info as I can to bring to my

family dr. just in case, but many of the files here i cant open

(something wrong with my computer i guess) Could someone please e-

mail me with anything you might think is helpful? My e-mail is

rickandtrish2003@...

Sorry this was so long! Thank you so much if you've read this far

lol!

Trish, Barrie, ON

with Carson almost 7 months!