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

"Elizabeth Reid" <eliz_reid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "JG" <jg030103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>...
> > Another article for the "Well, DUH!" file.   Amazing how some people
> > manage to walk without someone else (a physician?) telling them
> > (headphones?) how ("Left foot...right foot...left foot...right
> > foot...left foot...").
> >
> > How many fights do you imagine this one little piece of advice--"Back
to
> > Sleep"--has caused?  Husband:  "Aaah, honey?  The back of Bubba's head
> > is gettin' as flat as a pancake.  Whaddaya say we let him sleep on his
> > belly for a while to see if it helps?"  Wife (in a high-pitched,
panicky
> > voice):  "NO! !!  No, no, no, no, NO!  He'll DIE of SIDS if we do
that!
> > Dr. Imdeexpert said babies should sleep on their BACKS!   So what if
> > Bubba looks like some sorta weird doofus; at least he's ALIVE!!")
>
> Right.  How ridiculous.  I'd much rather my son live fast, die
> young, and leave a beautiful corpse.  A round head would look so
> much nicer in the last pictures I'd ever have of him.  (As it happens,
> he never had any flattening problems, although he did have a bald
> spot on the back of his head for a while.  The horror!)
>
> From what I've read, in the majority of cases the flattening resolves
> itself over time.  Even if it didn't, though, what possible implications
> would this have for 'our country's future'?

We have more kids grow into adults?

> Millions spent on
> hat redesign, plunging us into an economic crisis?

Hat redesign? If hats were flexible enough to fit around a kid's ears if
he
pulls it a little to far, I am sure they will conform to the shape of the
skull well enough.

But it does sound like a good niche market.

>  Increased
> incidence of mosquito-borne illness because the little vampires have
> a nice flat surface to fasten upon?   Round-headed aliens arrive and
> exterminate us all because they think we look silly?  What's the
> doomsday scenario here?

An imagined problem, flat back of heads.

> I think there are decent reasons to ignore the recommendation, and
> obviously the risk to any one child is probably low.  Fear of
> flat-headedness is silly though.

I think Roger should call this fear "goofy", at least when compared to
real
fears, like increased risk of death.

All the best,

Jeff
>
> Beth
> Sam 8/16/2002