Re: Has anybody seen improvements towards the end of the time spent in the helme

February 2, 2008

Our son Nicolas has been wearing his Starband for about 5 weeks now

and he had great results after only 2 weeks of wearing it (he got it

when he was almost 7 months old). However, that said, we realized

that he had gone through a growth spurt during that time which is why

the helmet worked so great. Over the past month, his head does not

seem much bigger so I don't think the rounding out is happening as

much. I now believe that you see results when there is a growth spurt

and I think that's pretty much what our orthosist told us. I wish I

knew about what to expect at the end as well. We are hoping for more

improvement ourselves. I think we have to be patient which is hard

because I know for myself and my husband, we don't like seeing our son

in the band.

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> My daughter who is now almost 9 months old has been wearing her

> helmet for more than 6 weeks now and while we have been seeing some

> results, they are not as significant as we were hoping. Her head is

> rounding out some, but the flat spot is still clearly visible. Also,

> she has facial assymetries and I can't see any improvement in that

> so far. Especially her ears are still off by a lot and her cheeks

> are clearly different. She started out 10 mm assymetrie. She hasn't

> been scanned since then so I don't know if that number has gone

> down, but when they measure her head, the ortho always says that she

> is exactly on track and on the growth curve (which to me means that

> her head is growing, but her plagio is not getting much better).

> I have been reading a lot of posts about early improvements, babies

> who have the most improvement within the first few weeks or even

> days spent in the helmet. Has anybody seen a lot of improvement

> towards the end? She still has about 2 months left before she'll

> outgrow the helmet. We are very compliant with the wearing schedule

> so that she has the full benefit of the helmet and I don't know of

> anything else I could do to make sure she gets the best results. I

> guess, I am getting a little worried that the helmet is not really

> helping her.

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