Re: New to all This. Any Advice Wecome!

[Guest guest]

Hi & welcome to our group!

I see you mention UK. Is that where you're located? There are a

couple options in the UK, Dr. Blecher which many of our parents in

the group have used or are using. Here's a link to his site:

http://www.cranio-online.de/index_engl.html#. As well as Cranial

Tech with the DOCband. They have a couple locations overseas that

may be near you? They're website it http://www.cranialtech.com

There's a great study in our LINKS section about the bands NOT

restricting brain growth. Let me find the link for you & I'll reply

with in it a minute for you to read. The bands do NOT cause any

brain growth restriction & are perfectly harmless.

Repositioning is most effective in younger infants, but some in the

group have still had success a bit older. We have a ton of

repositioning tips in our LINKS & FILES section " repositioning "

folders.

Will it round out on it's own?? Who knows!! I wish we all had a

crystal ball to look into to answer that, but it's truly something

you have to wait & see. Normally by the time you've waited, it's too

late to use a band or helmet IF it has not rounded on it's own.

I'll have the link for the brain growth study in my next reply to

you. Welcome & please keep us posted.

Debbie

MI

> Our daughter has quite a short / broad head with a flat side (

> differential estimated to be roughly 11mm ). She is now 6½ months

> old and we need to decide whether to seek help from an orthotist

in

> Lancashire, UK, without the backing of our Dr who knows nothing

> about brachycephaly or plagio.

>

> We have been referred to a Pediatrician and could be waiting up to

8

> weeks for the appointment. It is also unlikely that he will know

> anything about the condition. We have made contact with the

> orthotist who would prefer that we're referred by a Dr, before

> offering treatment.

>

> We feel very impatient and don't want to waste precious time. It

is

> becoming increasingly difficult to judge for ourselves whether her

> head shape appears all that mishapen. Wish we had a gut feeling as

> to what to do for the best.

>

> We'd appreciate any advice on the following:

>

> 1.Our main worry ( and our Dr's ) is about the unnatural effect

that

> a helmet might have on the rapidly growing brain (restricting

> natural growth on one side and allowing the brain to expand on the

> other side......plus the different sides of the brain affect

> different parts of the body. We would not want to endanger her

brain

> for the sake of a slightly flat head.Can anyone reassure us on

this

> score?????

>

> 2.Is it too late to start repositioning our daughter's head at 6½

> months, with a view to monitoring any change over the following 4

> months, then reconsider a helmet if we feel it's necessary?

>

> 3.Is the flatness likely to improve naturally as she starts to

crawl?

>

> Any Advice Welcome.

> Thanks

>

> Kate &

[Guest guest]

Here's the link to " cranial growth unrestricted " . HTH.

http://www.cranialtech.com/ParentsArea/publications/cti1174.pdf

Debbie

>

> 1.Our main worry ( and our Dr's ) is about the unnatural effect

that

> a helmet might have on the rapidly growing brain (restricting

> natural growth on one side and allowing the brain to expand on the

> other side......plus the different sides of the brain affect

> different parts of the body. We would not want to endanger her

brain

> for the sake of a slightly flat head.Can anyone reassure us on

this

> score?????

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Kate and ,

I just wanted to welcome you to ther group and really second

everything Debbie has already posted to you. It really is a hard

decision and when you've got a doctor w/out plagio knowledge that

further compounds the issue. My ped didn't know anything about

banding either, butI really wanted her " approval " or at least

something from her to build my confidence! She sent us to a

specialist for the first band, but since has read up on the subject

and has much more knowledge and even has written the scripts for our

second and third bands. My daughter was banded for 7 mos out of her

first year and her helmet didn't interfere with her head

circumference growth at all (in fact it's in the 90% percentile!).

Hopefully this knowledge and the link that Debbie provided will help

you feel better. The head still grows, it just grows in the

directions it needs to make it rounder. Hannah has worn a helmet

for a long time for her severe plagio and is developmentally right

on track and hit many of her milestones early in fact. The helmet

didn't slow her down at all! Good luck.

, mom to Hannah, DOC #3 3/30

Cape Cod, Ma

> > Our daughter has quite a short / broad head with a flat side (

> > differential estimated to be roughly 11mm ). She is now 6½

months

> > old and we need to decide whether to seek help from an orthotist

> in

> > Lancashire, UK, without the backing of our Dr who knows nothing

> > about brachycephaly or plagio.

> >

> > We have been referred to a Pediatrician and could be waiting up

to

> 8

> > weeks for the appointment. It is also unlikely that he will know

> > anything about the condition. We have made contact with the

> > orthotist who would prefer that we're referred by a Dr, before

> > offering treatment.

> >

> > We feel very impatient and don't want to waste precious time. It

> is

> > becoming increasingly difficult to judge for ourselves whether

her

> > head shape appears all that mishapen. Wish we had a gut feeling

as

> > to what to do for the best.

> >

> > We'd appreciate any advice on the following:

> >

> > 1.Our main worry ( and our Dr's ) is about the unnatural effect

> that

> > a helmet might have on the rapidly growing brain (restricting

> > natural growth on one side and allowing the brain to expand on

the

> > other side......plus the different sides of the brain affect

> > different parts of the body. We would not want to endanger her

> brain

> > for the sake of a slightly flat head.Can anyone reassure us on

> this

> > score?????

> >

> > 2.Is it too late to start repositioning our daughter's head at

6½

> > months, with a view to monitoring any change over the following

4

> > months, then reconsider a helmet if we feel it's necessary?

> >

> > 3.Is the flatness likely to improve naturally as she starts to

> crawl?

> >

> > Any Advice Welcome.

> > Thanks

> >

> > Kate &

[Guest guest]

Hi Kate and ,

I just want to second everything that Debbie and have already

told you. Welcome to the group.

> Our daughter has quite a short / broad head with a flat side (

> differential estimated to be roughly 11mm ). She is now 6½ months

> old and we need to decide whether to seek help from an orthotist in

> Lancashire, UK, without the backing of our Dr who knows nothing

> about brachycephaly or plagio.

>

> We have been referred to a Pediatrician and could be waiting up to

8

> weeks for the appointment. It is also unlikely that he will know

> anything about the condition. We have made contact with the

> orthotist who would prefer that we're referred by a Dr, before

> offering treatment.

>

> We feel very impatient and don't want to waste precious time. It is

> becoming increasingly difficult to judge for ourselves whether her

> head shape appears all that mishapen. Wish we had a gut feeling as

> to what to do for the best.

>

> We'd appreciate any advice on the following:

>

> 1.Our main worry ( and our Dr's ) is about the unnatural effect

that

> a helmet might have on the rapidly growing brain (restricting

> natural growth on one side and allowing the brain to expand on the

> other side......plus the different sides of the brain affect

> different parts of the body. We would not want to endanger her

brain

> for the sake of a slightly flat head.Can anyone reassure us on this

> score?????

>

> 2.Is it too late to start repositioning our daughter's head at 6½

> months, with a view to monitoring any change over the following 4

> months, then reconsider a helmet if we feel it's necessary?

>

> 3.Is the flatness likely to improve naturally as she starts to

crawl?

>

> Any Advice Welcome.

> Thanks

>

> Kate &