Flat-headed baby: have I broken my child?

[ManchesterMummy]

Help.

To shut my mother up about DD's flat head, I took her to the GP this morning and he has referred her to a paediatrician. She's 17 weeks old. He started talking about "problems inside" and I'm very worried now.

I know this has come up before but I'd quite like some reassurance that she's going to be okay. Mum thinks we shouldn't put her on her back to sleep but I don't want to!

She seems very bright and is reaching all milestones so far but I'm really concerned now that my baby is damaged!!!

Thanks

i apologise for not calling it a helmet havent been well and obviously not thinking properly on how someone may percieve it although considering my ds had problems with his head i wouldnt be insensitive and say stick a hat on lol

so i am sorry if it was taken wrong way i did mean corrective helmet as this was what my ds was measured to have although head still slightly flat it has rounded out loads and was decided he didnt need this

When our DD had her problems it was the worst time and I get passionate about it as I want to try and save other parents the difficulties we went through.

I hope you are feeling better, bubblagirl. I feel like c*ap at the moment so can sympathise.

thank you cory for setting it straight and understanding what i meant

i really can be so blonde at times when i'm not well i know what i want to say it all comes out wrong always seem to affend people

so thanks for realising i wasnt being a bitch lol

nab i'm sorry you went through lots of probl;ems also

my ds had flat head in his 20 week scan so was always aware that we would have problems had to be measured continuously and it didnt look as though it would ever correct one side was completely flat but luckily with turning him every hour in night wedging him onto the good side for most of time in day it is 90% better

if really looking you can see still kind of flat but it is normal looking now

now we have speech delay to deal with so one thing to another

i feel like rubbish continuously ill at moment but ok

hope you are ok x

my LO had plagiocephaly (I say had, HAS really and he's 3), but it has affected nothing but his looks. if you look at him from above his ears are not level, one is about an inch further forward and the back of his head is wonky. He will have issues if he ever has to wear glasses but thats all. His face used to be wonky too, but as he got mobile and spent all his time sat up on or his front, he face rounded out.

My sisters LO on the other hand has brachiocephaly where the head is completely flat at the back he also has no soft spot and he's only 8 months old. He has been referred but doc is not overly concerned as he is meeting all his milestones. If the correction is deemed for cosmetic purposes only, I believe you have to go private to get a helmet etc to straighten them out. Not heard of the NHS funding corrective treatment, but NAB may know more than me.

I don't think my lo's plagio is very noticable anymore, but i was chatting to my dad the other day about it and he said "ah well you wouldn't miss him in a crowd though would ya!" so maybe you can tell - to me he is the most gorgeous cheeky being on the planet and i love him regardless!

www.plagiocephalyuk.co.uk/