![]() ![]() My advise to every parent who notices a flat spot on their child's head, don't worry about the few months of discomfort of the helmet or the worry of what people will think, that is nothing compared to your child's lifetime of living with a misshapen head. I hate to think that it most likely will cause him to be self-conscience about his head, he won't ever be able to get a buzz cut and will at some point most likely get teased about it. I would much rather have put him in a helmet for a few months and lived with the stares of strangers and had to find a way to pay for it back then to think now of him always having to live with a noticeably misshapen head. I was a first time mom and trusted the Dr but now wish that I had pushed the issue and gotten a referral for a specialist. It didn't seem that noticeable when he was younger but as he grew it seemed to get worse. He is now 3 1/2 and the flat spot did not round out and is quite noticeable. I brought it up again quite a while later and she again said not to worry. My pediatrician noticed a flat spot on my sons head but said not to worry it would round out by the time he was 2. However if you continue to be concerned - seek out another pedi's or specialists opinion. If your daughters head is not too severely flat on the back and your pedi is not concerned, it will probably correct itself. Later my son was too much of a rolly-polly to do this with. When my son spent time in the NICU his first 6 weeks of life - they did this technique quite a bit.using rolled flannel burp-cloths etc and having him lay on alternating sides. You can also try repositioning her once she is asleep - using rolled blankets etc to try to get her body leaning to left or right a bit. Some will tell you due to SIDS concerns that you shouldn't put anything in the crib - a call you will have to make for yourself. I tried to use it to cushion his head when he was either in the crib or in his car seat. I also looked into a small memory-foam "mini-pillow" for him. As he got older I did feel like that the more time he spent more time upright that it was also helping. Even in the bathtub when his hair is wet - you can't really tell that much unless you knew what to look for. It got much better but he still has a very SLIGHT flat spot on one side but you would never know it now that he has hair. Anyway we did therapy where they stretched neck muscles on one side and strengthened on the other side and we did those same excersizes with him at home. No matter how we tried repositioning him while he slept, he always ended up on his "comfortable side". My son had torticollis - which means that the muscles on one side of his neck were "shorter" than the other.so he tended to lean to one side - particularlly when he slept, so it created a flat spot on the side he favored.
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