Hi folks, first post.
My DS turns 5 months tomorrow (he was born at 37wks).
His head still isn’t steady, however curiously he goes through bouts of leaning only to one side.
For example, he can lean exclusively to the left for 2 weeks, then wake up one morning and lean exclusively to the right for the next week or two.
During these periods he’ll have degrees of head control, being able to hold it in the centre at points, but when he gets tired it’ll quickly go back to whichever side is dominating.
We’ve had a couple of appointments with the paediatric physio, however she said his muscles appear ok, no tightness/Torticollis and good muscle tone over the rest of his body. She said some babies just develop at different rates, that he was young and the head control would come.
She felt he was ‘doing everything else he should be doing at this age.
I asked if it’s just a matter of his neck needing to strengthen, why would it lean only to one side for a week, then suddenly switch to the other side for another week or two?
She couldn’t give me an answer for that.
I asked about potential ear/eye problems and whether they could affect DS head balance in this way and she pointed out both his eyes and hearing would have been tested in the first month of his life.
Doing a bit of a Google (I know) Benign Paroxysmal Torticollis appears to cause similar symptoms, but it wasn’t something the physio mentioned.
I’ve got a private physio booked for tomorrow, as I felt a second opinion might be worthwhile.
Anyway, apologies for the long post, really I’m just wondering if anyone else has had similar symptoms with their little ones?