Re: Brachy - repositioning

April 3, 2008

My daughter had brachy and we banded her at 5 mo (starband). Brachy is

really hard to correct via repo because there is usually a lot of

extra width, and all you can really do is try to get all the new

growth to go to the back of the head to improve the overall

proportion. Our doc (cranio facial plastic surgeon) used cephalic

index, so I'm not sure about her standard deviation.

You can see her pictures in Our Plagio Babies S/ Sydney M. You'll see

how her head improved a lot, but is still wider than normal. The band

holds the sides, so the head doesn't get wider. She had a lot of

improvement while in her band. We had a follow up visit 4 mo after she

graduated, and although her head had grown, the proportions hadn't

changed at all. So the new growth was pretty evenly distributed, and

didn't improve her cephalic index.

Also I would love for Sydney to have a perfect head - why not? But she

doesn't. I wish I had know more about plagio/brachy when she was born.

Good luck with your decision. -christine

sydney 2 yrs starband grad

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> We had our appointment with CT in NJ yesterday, and this is what the

> result is. We have no asymmetry, but we have brachy. The lady was

> really nice and I can see from the pictures that we have it, but by

> all means is anything even close to what I saw on their catalog for

> example. My husband is really skeptical about the band, so we decided

> to wait for another 3 weeks and see if there is any improvement with

> repositioning, just him starting to sit, etc. Anybody who had similar

> experience and were able to correct brachy only with repositioning?

> Any tips will be greatly appreciated. They said that the index they

> measure is 4.25 standard deviation from the mean. I do not want him to

> have perfect head, neither my husband no I have one, but I would like

> to be able to reduce the difference at least to 2 standard deviation.

> Also I was wondering if anybody knows where I can buy the meters they

> use to measure babies head. I would really want to be able to measure

> him and see if his head is growing and I do not see improvement than I

> really need to convince my husband to put the band.

> Thank you in advance.

> Totti

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