Re: Infant flat skulls can be avoided: U.S. doctors

"JG" <jg030103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 "PF Riley"
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> There's nothing wrong with recommending supine sleeping; a problem
> arises, however, when parents of kids who sleep better (i.e., have a
> better "quality" of sleep) on their stomachs adamantly refuse to let
> them do so.  My older daughter was definitely a prone sleeper (as am I).

So what is the problem?


> > I'd say 48% sounds about right in my experience. What you fail to
> > realize is that for most of them, the deformity resolves with time.
> > Back to Sleep started in full force around 1994. Do you know many
> > 9-year-olds with misshapen heads?
>
> I know a couple of teenagers with rather severe craniofacial
> abnormalities, but not because of supine sleeping.

So? I know kids with all kinds of problems not related to supine sleeping.


> What I have
> difficulty understanding is why the parents of the 48% with misshapen
> heads either didn't notice the problem developing (!) or didn't take
> corrective action (e.g., the suggestions in the article) sooner...

Maybe they do notice but just don;t consider it a major problem.


>
> > Please tell me what the problem with this is. I don't want your
> > conjecture, of course, but you should cite studies showing that
> > failing to learn to crawl (something many, normally developing and
> > healthy babies have done even before Back to Sleep) is detrimental.
>
> There probably isn't one.

OK - glad we got that one out of the way.


> My older daughter--the prone sleeper--did
> crawl

As most do.


> (use her forearms to pull herself across the floor, dragging her
> extended legs behind her), but she skipped/missed the whole creeping
> (moving about on hands and knees, stomach off the floor) stage and went
> straight to pulling herself up and walking (9-10 months).  Someone
> should explain to Doman-Delcato ("patterning") adherents that there's no
> immutable motor skills-development sequence.

Now you are arguing our point.

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CBI, MD