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Hi, I just wanted to introduce myself after lurking for a couple weeks. I've found the list to be a great resource as I came to terms with banding my son! My 5.5 mo son Robbie got his DOCBand last Tuesday.

I spent 24 in labor with him, including 4 hours of hard pushing where we could only get his ear to crown as the rest of his head rammed my pelvis. I ended up with a c-section, but no one was really surprised when he had a pretty bad flat spot! I'm pretty sure he also had torticollis, but repositioning seemed to mostly correct that after the first couple weeks (he still prefers one side more often, but has finally started choosing to sleep facing the less-favored side - yay, no more sneaking in to turn him!)

When tummy time and repositioning hadn't corrected the lopsidedness by his 4 month appt, though, we were diagnosed with plagio and referred for the band, and while our ped said it was purely cosmetic, he measured at 15mm asymetry - yowsa! Needless to say, we went ahead with it. Four days in and he's adjusting fairly well, though I have a couple questions though.

Red spots - he's getting red lines on his cheeks from the ear pieces. Our OT said that shouldn't be a pressure point, so she recommended hydrocortisone for heat rash, but that really doesn't seem to help. I left the band off for a couple hours yesterday when one side started looking almost raw, and fortunately the marks faded, so I think it was pressure, right? He wore the band all night and woke up with some mild redness again, but I felt comfortable sending him to daycare with a warning that if it looks raw wen they took it off for his neck exercises, they should call me. We go for our first adjustment tomorrow and I'll ask then, but wanted to know if thers had this experience (i.e., is it really just heat rash and I'm overreacting?)

Painting - I painted his band yesterday with non-toxic acrylic paint, then added stickers and a couple coats of Mod Podge, but noticed when he woke up this morning that it was already starting to peel. Did I miss a step, or is this par for the course?

Thanks again - I'm so glad this group is here!