Sleeping only on one side..

[joss.00]

In regards to a 'flat head', my DD is 2 now and when she was a baby, we went through so many dramas in regards to the shape of her head as she too liked sleeping on her right side. We did everything religiously, putting a towel along side her to encourage her to sleep on the other side, we brought a 'wedge' to wedge her to one side etc etc etc. We went to the extreme (encouraged by our nurse) to go and see a specialist about her head as she might need a helmet. Well we did go see him and he did encourage us to get a helmet, my DD was measured, moulded and the helmet was made. We went home and were to pick it up the next day......that night my DH and talked about it and he was totally against it as my DD had to wear this helmet 23hours of the day for as long as she needed which could've been 6 - 8 months. We decided against it and what I am trying to get at is, her head is perfect now!!!!!!! Give it some time, try the excercises you can but don't stress over this as I did, it was so emotional and I wasted nearly a year of worrying over this. Their head does mould back to shape naturally without intervention.

[~Belinda~]

I agree actually, so many people make you worry these days about things!

[Mez80]

Yes we worry so much when we dont know what is going on and porfessionals are telling us all these things...i too bought various wedges, pillows for the side of dd's head, would sit in the room when i rolled her on her side (incase she rolled over onto her face!) put toys on one side of her cot (which she wasnt too interested in anyway) and i was also attending physio which funny enough was for her talipes and ended up being about her head and the strength on her neck! I decided to stop the physio as her feet were corrected and thought the physio was just inventing things. DD is fine. I did a lot of tummy time with her so she could practice strengthening her neck and as she grew and developed her head and neck are fine. If you are still concerned, the towel works fine and in some ways better then the wedges.