Chad and Courtney

My little Sawyer is truly the sweetest, happiest baby I have ever met. He only cries if he's hungry or extremely tired. Ok, or if I suck his nose with an aspirator, poor kid, he hates that. The only thing that my perfect baby boy doesn't have is a perfectly shaped head. A couple of months ago, we discovered that he had Torticollis, a fancy word for tight muscles in one side of his neck. Really not a big deal, however, it did create Plagiocephaly, another fancy word that means that his tight muscles caused him to turn his head the same way all the time, and now he has a flat spot on one side of his head. We took him to a physical therapist for the last 2 months who taught us stretches to loosen those muscles, and strategies to help him want to turn to the left, hoping that it would round his head out to put pressure on the other side. He "graduated" physical therapy last week, but his head shape is still the same, bummer. So now the next step is to get him a cranial band, one of those little helmets that you occasionally see babies wearing. Yes, I'm sad about it, my poor little guy has to wear this thing. He won't get it for a couple of weeks, due to insurance and getting the helmet made. But he'll have to wear it 22-23 hours a day for anywhere from 2-4 months. It all depends on how fast his head grows. Basically the helmet will be snug against one side of his head and roomy around the flat spots encouraging growth to go to that part of his head. It doesn't hurt, and they don't force anything to move, it's like a mold. (Think of growing a watermellon in a box, it still grows just fine, just in a square.) In case you are clueless as to what I'm describing, I'll add a picture. In a couple of weeks, Sawyer will be rocking one of these. (No, that's not Sawyer.)