How bad is my son's plagiocephaly/flat head?

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My 8 week old son has a ridiculously flat head on one side. I first noticed it about 2 weeks after he was born and since then have mentioned it to various midwives/doctors/health visitors and have been completely fobbed off every time with "it will rectify itself". He has a turning preference to turn to the right and I mentioned this to the GP and because he CAN turn to the left she wasn't bothered.

My son was breech and spent a lot of time in the same spot (10+ weeks). I found an osteopath because I'm so concerned and have been taking him privately, turns out he has torticollis which we are now treating but every day I get more and more worried about the flat spot.

I've tried googling and that's terrifying because of things like craniosynostotis. I don't THINK he has that but how can I be sure? We are trying to do more tummy time but he absolutely hates it; but we try every nappy change to do just a couple of minutes. During the day he doesnt spend much time in his crib at all because he's a contact napper but I I bought a lovenest pillow but am scared to use it at night because all the guidelines say we can't. Last night he slept 6 hours on that side of his head because he will not be repositioned no matter how I try and lie him down he always goes back to turning towards the right.

we have our 8 week check next week at 9 weeks and 2 days (they couldn't see us any earlier) when he'll also get his vaccinations. Should I push for physio? I'm absolutely sick of being fobbed off when I can see it getting worse and I'm terrified it will leave him with a deformed head/he will struggle with glasses/or worse he could have developmental delays or speech problems or something awful.

Did your baby have plagio? How did you treat it? How on earth do you reposition a baby for sleep whose head keeps turning to the right because if you put his head towards the left he flops it back again because the angle is so severe? and if we manage to reposition him, will he get flat on the OTHER side?!

Please help, I'm going out of my mind, i love my son so much and he's so beautiful my heart breaks to think of him deformed or worse, and we absolutely cannot afford a helmet :(

I could have written this myself when my 22 month old was 8 weeks old. Same as you I noticed he only ever slept on his right side and took him to an osteopath who helped him turn his head. I also had 2 sessions of physio on the NHS but they didn't really do anything and it was pointless. I would stay awake most of the night trying to turn him to the other side and it stressed me out so much. I would carry him for hours in the baby carrier so he wasn't laying flat and I bought one of those pillows with the hole in for daytime sleep when I was supervising him. Don't use them at night. My sons head wasn't too bad but I could tell the difference. There was a flattening on the one side. I was obsessed for it for ages but at some point he started sleeping on his stomach and I didn't worry so much. Ours never got to a point where it was bad enough that I considered a helmet, but now at 22 months it hasn't evened out but he has a full head of hair and probably I'm the only person that will ever notice one side is slightly flatter than the other. I hope it won't cause him issues in the future with glasses or bike helmets etc but it doesn't cause brain damage or developmental delays so I'm not sure where you've got that information. It's purely cosmetic, which is why NHS does not cover the cost of those helmets.