75 baths and counting...

So we had an appointment today for Harper... she has been in the band for 9 days... I have started to see a difference every night at bath time, and today her Therapist Josie confirmed her head is rounding out! :)
They have a mold of her head from where she started so we are able to compare at every appointment. They put a pantyhose on her head to smooth the her crazy hair so you can really see everything. We also started Physical Therapy today as well for her head tilt, doing this physical therapy will help her ears align as well and loosen her tightness. So as much as it sucks that she has to wear this stylish band for 23 hours and have a head that smells like gym socks... it is SO WORTH IT! She is going to have the best looking head AROUND:)

84 Baths!!!

So I am sure you are wondering about the title... this is the amount of baths Harper is going to have over the next 12 weeks, while she is in Doc Band Treatment.... I know you are all wondering what is a Doc Band??? Well I always wondered too... you see little infants rocking helmets and wonder WHY??? You think something is really wrong with them... you fear the worse and feel bad for staring... I know I have.

So back in February I woke up one morning and I was feeding Harper and I noticed that she had a very odd shaped head and that it was REALLY FLAT???? I showed BJ thinking am I crazy??? He thought it was a little weird and we both decided to wait until she had her next Dr check up. At that appointment, I ended up pointing out Harpers head to him and asked him to evaluate... He did notice that her ears where not aligned and that she did have an area that would need to be looked at. He recommended that we see a Physical Therapist. I waited for a week to hear from a physical therapist, and in the mean time I started to do my own digging and found Cranial Technologies, I did there online evaluation and made an appointment with them for a week later. We brought Harper in and found out she has a Moderate form of Plagiocephaly... What is Plagiocephaly???? It actually means Oblique Head in Greek... it is when your ears do not align , you can have facial asymmetry and also a bulging forward. Harper did have some of these things.. so we moved forward with her Doc Band. This can be cause because she was a Twin and she was in crammed quarters and it could have also been caused because of her sleeping on her back. Apparently it is on the rise since The Back to Sleep campaign has began.

We did find out that our insurance was not going to cover a penny... BYE BYE summer family vacation... Hello Drs appointments every week and of course Hello Perfect Round Head for little Miss Harper:)

So May 10th Harper got her Doc Band, the first 24 hour was an adjustment for her and us. The person most concerned with her HELMET was Helena, she was worried her "baby sister" was hurt. We reassured her she was ok and now Helena thinks of it more as a hat. We found and awesone sign company that provides wraps for the bands Pro Bono, so BJ was able to design Harper's rocking band.

All I can say is she will be getting a 84 baths ... her poor little head smells like sweaty socks, she has to wear her Band 23 hours a day, it leaves me one hour to clean the Band with a toothbrush and alcohol and get her into to the tub, she loves baths so this is a fun hour for her as well:)