Used to be a Member - checking in re: my 4yo plagio...

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Hey All,

I used to be a member of this board when my son was younger. I

wanted to give an update to all (and encouragement???) about how we

are doing...

Background: At 6 weeks we noticed that our son had a flat spot.

After 3 peds over the course of 12 months - not a single one

recommended a helmet. (Grrr!) We took him to Cranial Technologies

in Chicago and they gave him a Moderate to Severe rating. I went

through all the thoughts about " What have I done to my son! " etc.

and finally came to accepting it - as we were not willing to pursue

surgery.

I joined the older plagio group and rec'd alot of encouragement

there.

Well, then life started falling apart. (yeah, I thought is was bad -

it got worse!) At about 18 mo our lovely, friendly little man

started becoming aggressive, head bonking and hurting himself. I

did a TON of research and looked at: Plagio, Sensory Integration

Disorder, Autism, Aspergers, and anything else that might make sense

of it all. We did end up doing 13 sessions of Cranial Sacral

Therapy with a Pediatric Chiropractor who's studied CST from the

Upledger Inst. (WOW! What a difference it made in his attitude!)

Finally (after we moved) a new friend recommended having a

behavioral ped take a look at him. So we did. Sure enough, my

little flat headed man is high functioning autistic. I felt

vindicated and sad all at once. Finally we had a strategy for all

the strange behavior - and an explanation more sensible than plagio

for his behavior.

We were able to get him into a GREAT school and he's doing VERY

well. Yesterday we finally got his eye glasses too. (Yeah, on top

of everything else, he's VERY far sited - me too.) They fit on his

face just fine - even with the flat spot.

So - I wanted to let you all know a few things:

When I thought the flat spot was the " end of the world " - something

worse happened. It quickly got me over the concerns of plagio and

put it into perspective. And (someone said to me once - I've taken

it to heart) The Creator of all things must think VERY highly of my

parenting skills to give me such a child as the precious little boy

that I have.

Kay - Hugs!