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One tough parenting decision down...a gazillion more to go...

lets hope we made the right choice.

As most of you know Evie has head and neck issues. Her head was extremely flat on one side when she was born. This resulted in torticollis which just means one side of her neck is stronger than the other. She would constantly lay on the left side of her head no matter how many times we would lay her to the right.

We went to a nerologist several months after she was born and said it should correct itself and to come back in a few mths. It did get a little better but when we went back he gave us a prescription for a cranial band (molding helmet) he said it was our choice. I wish he had just said do it or she doesn't need it.
We sent the info to insurance to see if they would pay ( the helmets are several thousand dollars ) and if the doc didn't think it was necessary and insurance wouldn't pay then we wouldn't do it.
Well insurance agreed that it was more than just cosmetic and they agreed to pay in full.
This made us feel like we should do it but we continued putting it off hoping it would get better.
Her physical therapist recommended we see someone else and gave us several reasons why not correcting it could give her problems in the future.
Too many signs pointed to yes. I wish i still had my magic eight ball, that thing would have really helped me out....
We decided to go see someone this morning and he agreed it would be for her benefit and the helmet would help her so we just did it.

Before it all went down...sweet girl had no idea

They covered her with vaseline then put a stocking like thing over her head and face.

She hated it and just started crying and trying to pull it off.

Then they started putting the plaster all over her head, it was dripping down her face and squishing her eyes shut and the crying continued....then it hardened and he stuck this yellow thing up the back and tried to cut it off.

Well she was eating a baby goldfish at the time and staretd choking on it, that scared her and she cried even harder.

Then he tried to pull it off and it wouldnt budge so he was pulling and her eyes and neck and everything were coming with it..crying continued.

Then he went to get a saw, you know the ones they take casts off with. He turned it on and she was fine..then he touched her head with it. Her face was a look of sheer panic. She started screaming and crying, throwing her hands everywhere.

He finally was able to pull it off and she collapsed in my chest doing the heavy breathing half crying thing.

Look at her face...its fuzzy but you can tell she is so angry!!

Her eyes were bright red and she had plaster all over her face and clothes.

I put her in my dads lap and started getting things together and she started screaming and throwing her body fwd to get down and reaching for me. I picked her back up and she held on so tight! It kind of made me laugh because i had never seen her act this way. She really loves me! ha I truly felt like a mom at that point!

She feel straight to sleep in the car and here she is still asleep in her car seat while we ate Panera. She hasn't done this in months!

We should get the helmet the end of next week. We will go back to him every few weeks to check how it is working and do adjustments. We don't know how long, month wise she will wear it but its 23 hours a day! They say it doesn't bother them and they get used to it so i hope so! I ordered solid white or light pink, they were going to see what was in stock, then i can decorate it! you know me...