Re: Graduated - repositioning and band

[Guest guest]

Hi Totti,

I'm glad it worked out for you. I remember when you were debating if

you should band or not and what to do since you would be traveling.

I'm glad you got good results in such a short time. Are you going to

go back to CT (or your doc) when you return to see if there was

additional improvement? (just curious)

Enjoy your travels.

-christine

sydney 2.5 yrs starband grad

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> Hello,

> I just wanted to give an update and let you know about my experience

> as this might be helpful for somebody and especially for people who

> are deciding now whether to band or not.

> We went to CT at the beginning of April when my son was 5 months old.

> His cephalic index was measured at 96.3 which is 4:5 standard

> deviation. It sounds worse than it actually was as I could see the

> flatness but it was not so severe in my mind (I had looked at many

> pictures so I had a basis for comparison) so I was not sure whether I

> want to band or not. I tried repositioning for a month and in the

> mean time I was working on approval from the insurance. We were

> approve for $3000 of the cost so we decided to band as it is not

> going to be so expensive and I did not want to regret later. When we

> went for casting exactly a month later, thanks to the repositioning (

> I was really going crazy at the baby and i made the nanny do the

> same, it was hard but I had decided to give my best) the cephalic

> index was 93.6 or only 2.4 standard deviation. My son was in the band

> (DOC Band) for 7 weeks and yesterday we were measured at 89.1 or only

> 1.7 standard deviation. There is not asymmetry or anything else so

> his head looks pretty good and everybody at CT was amazed we got so

> good result so fast considering my son is now 8 months and 2 weeks.

> We are leaving the country so we are going to stop wearing the band

> in a couple of days, but I am going to continue with repositioning,

> which I hope is going to be a lot easier as my son sleeps on his

> tummy, crowls, and sits (he can put himself to sit), trying to stand,

> etc. I am hoping to get the ratio down to 85 which is only 2 over the

> normal of 78 -83, but even if it stays like this I will be fine.

> I just wanted to point out, that with repositioning I got the ratio

> down from 96.3 to 93.6 in a month, and with the band for 2 months

> from 93.6 to 89.1. I am happy we banded as it was a lot easier on me

> (we had no problem with the band, no red spots, no crying, etc),

> everybody at CT was great and I am sure it helped a lot to get the

> shape of the head my son has now, but I am convinced that if you do

> not want to band, but you are ready to do repositioning all the way

> you can get pretty much the same results, but you have to commit to

> it.

> I am glad we banded, but I just wanted to give credit to the

> repositioning as well as I saw good results with both.

> Good luck to all of you who are dealing with this problem and I hope

> I see more improvement as I continue monitoring my son.

> Totti

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