Thank you !!!

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I want to thank everyone on this and the other plagio board (sorry

if

you get this twice) for all the advice and encouragement.

has officially graduated from her helmet and although her head's not

perfect, we're pleased with the results. I thought I'd share our

journey esp with the newer members, as I haven't posted so much

recently. (sorry for the long post) It was my (80 year old)

grandmother who noticed her cheeck asymmetry when she was 3 months

old although I had noticed her not wanting to turn left a little

before that. We brought it up to her pediatrician (and surprise

surprise he said to monitor it and she should outgrow it). By 4 -5

months old her cheeck had worsened but she would turn her neck

better

(after minimal repo). I think to get us off his back he referred us

to the craniofacial specialist and she got her starband at 5 months

with an asymmetry of 14 mm. Throughout our visits with the

orthotist, she kept questioning Sam's neck bc she saw a tilt but was

never diagnosed with tort (even from our craniofacial specialist.)

At

8 months we saw an orthopedic surgeon who treats kids who said that

Sam did indead have minor tort that would probably be fine doing

nothing but since we know about it we may as well keep up on the

stretches (which we started to do anyway.) After 3 months in the

helmet we got down to 4.6 mm and then outgrew it. Last week we went

back to check after 2 weeks of not wearing it and she was at 4.8mm

(essentially no different, so no regression!) It would be nice to

get the numbers a little lower, however the craniofacial specialist

said he was happy under 5mm (usually doesn't band under 10 mm) and

it

is starting to get really hot here in Sac, so I am so not interested

in another band.

Unfortunately I never posted any pics (just too busy and all.) But I

really wanted to thank you all of you, especially the moderaters for

keeping a board like this around. I'll probably stick around this

week and then unsubsribe. Thanks again !

, mom to 9 months

Starband grad !!! yeah!!!