Re:Advice please with sleep positioner....thanks

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Hi Barbie,

I was pretty unsuccessful at repo'ing at night, which is why I bought the

positioners with

the memory foam pillows. We actually started early enough that we could swaddle

the

boys with one arm out and they would suck the thumb of the hand on the side we

wanted

them to look towards. If Hallie is a thumb sucker this could work, but at about

4 months

they didn't like the confinement any more...that is when we got the positioners.

One thing people have used is a rice sock sewn into the pyjamas to get the baby

to tip

away from the flat spot. I'm not sure how this works, but you could post a

question about

it, or look through the repo files. Most of the repo tips we got were from this

discussion

group and common sense. The PT helped us with positioning them in their car

seats to

stop them tipping their heads.

The twin with the worse plagio and tort learned to roll early without help. The

one with

milder tort STILL needs encouragement to roll from back to belly at almost 8

months. He

has worse reflux and the PT thinks that is why he doesn't want to pull his legs

up to roll

and prefers to be on his back. He is sitting up though, and all other

milestones are on

target so I'm not worried. To get Hallie to roll from back to belly, work with

getting her to

suck her toes and slowly start tipping her from the hips while she's got her

legs up.

The biggest improvement has occurred in the last month (7-8 months, 6-7

adjusted), so it

has taken a LOT of patience on my part.

If you have any suspicion that Hallie has tort, no matter how mild, I would

strongly

recommend seeing a PT. Even if it is very mild, it will only make the plagio

worse.

All the best...and feel free to quiz me more, although I am no expert!

Colleen

> > Hi Barbie and ,

> >

> > I used this positioner from 4-6 months. I do believe

> > it helped prevent their flat spots from getting worse.

> > I got them because it was impossible to get them to

> > sleep on the round sides of their heads with the tort,

> > and figured these memory foam pillows were the next

> > best thing. I do think if I'd got them earlier they

> > might have helped even more.

> >

> > Barbie - you can see my babies in the B folder. They

> > are Baby B and Baby A. B was my " worse case " .

> >

> > Colleen

> >

> > __________________________________________________

> >