Guest guest Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 So post band do yalls kids still have ridges at sutures or other not so round feeling bones when you feel the kids head? s seems like the back feels lumpy on one side of the lower back and he still has a pretty prominant feeling ridge on the top especially toward the front. he finished band the day after his 1st bday and he is alost 23 mo now -- SC SAHM to:-12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. " Mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 Hi - My son just graduated from his band a couple of weeks ago, but it sounds like he has similar bumps/ridges to your son's. He has a prominent metopic suture (front center one) and a right lambdoid suture that started fusing earlier than his others, so there is a ridge on that side of his flat spot. Supposedly, the prominent metopic suture can get better as he gets older and the bone starts to thicken more. I'm not sure of the status of the lambdoid suture though. Neither one is visible, I just notice them when I rub my hand over his head. Has had the same ridges for a while or did they just develop post graduation? Jake-2 (DOCBand Grad 9/19/08) Jordan-4.5 > > So post band do yalls kids still have ridges at sutures or other not so > round feeling bones when you feel the kids head? s seems like the back > feels lumpy on one side of the lower back and he still has a pretty > prominant feeling ridge on the top especially toward the front. he finished > band the day after his 1st bday and he is alost 23 mo now > > -- > SC SAHM to: > -12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month > > " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He > didn't trust me so much. " > Mother > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 3, 2008 Report Share Posted October 3, 2008 no he had them before his band too but I figured the band would fix it and then after that I thought when his sutures fused or started to it would fix but he is nearing that magic age of 2 and they dont seem any better On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 5:25 PM, <nwilkens2275@...> wrote: Hi -My son just graduated from his band a couple of weeks ago, but it sounds like he has similar bumps/ridges to your son's. He has a prominent metopic suture (front center one) and a right lambdoid suture that started fusing earlier than his others, so there is a ridge on that side of his flat spot. Supposedly, the prominent metopic suture can get better as he gets older and the bone starts to thicken more. I'm not sure of the status of the lambdoid suture though. Neither one is visible, I just notice them when I rub my hand over his head. Has had the same ridges for a while or did they just develop post graduation?Jake-2 (DOCBand Grad 9/19/08) Jordan-4.5 >> So post band do yalls kids still have ridges at sutures or other not so> round feeling bones when you feel the kids head? s seems like the back > feels lumpy on one side of the lower back and he still has a pretty> prominant feeling ridge on the top especially toward the front. he finished> band the day after his 1st bday and he is alost 23 mo now > > -- > SC SAHM to:> -12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month> > " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He> didn't trust me so much. " > Mother > -- SC SAHM to: -12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. " Mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 4, 2008 Report Share Posted October 4, 2008 thx a bunch nicole, that helps a ton On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 3:03 PM, <nwilkens2275@...> wrote: The way it was explained to me was that sutures don't fully fuse (100%) until our early 20s. It's just that they have begun the fusing process by the time babies turn 2, which can slow process with the band, that's why it's recommended to band earlier. Also, I was told that the first 2 years are spent with the skull growing outward in size, so the bone is still relatively thin, but then it starts growing in thickness, bone on top of bone (like layers). So with that comes possible additional improvement with the shape of the skull (as I was told, my son's pronounced metopic suture should become less dramatic as his bone thickens because it will soften/round the angles of it). I'm not sure how long it takes for the skull to reach it's ultimate thickness though. I do know that our final head size is reached sometime in our teens. So there is still a lot of growing for both of our boys to do, we did what we could for the more severe asym, and now I guess we wait to see what happens naturally from here. I do know that my son's metopic suture is already less dramatic than it was, so I think some of it may have been due to that fluid build up that is sometimes mentioned here around some of the edges of the band. He did have a ridge between the opening of the band that was just fluid and I honestly haven't checked that area lately to see if that's gone away yet. But I think maybe there was some fluid around the cap of his band by that metopic suture that has now been reduced since graduating. Anyway, that's what I know about skull growth...hope it helps. Jake-2 (DOCBand Grad 9/19/08)Jordan-4.5> > >> > > So post band do yalls kids still have ridges at sutures or other> > not so > > > round feeling bones when you feel the kids head? s seems like> > the back> > > feels lumpy on one side of the lower back and he still has a pretty> > > prominant feeling ridge on the top especially toward the front. > > he finished> > > band the day after his 1st bday and he is alost 23 mo now> > >> > > --> > > SC SAHM to:> > > -12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month > > >> > > " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish> > that He> > > didn't trust me so much. " > > > Mother > > >> >> > > >> > > > -- > SC SAHM to:> -12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month> > " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He> didn't trust me so much. " > Mother > -- SC SAHM to: -12 -8½ -3½ ph-1½ -1 month " I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much. " Mother Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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