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

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:05:34 -0400, "CBI" <00doc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>No - maybe they are employing them but they don't work 100%. I hear about
>kids that prefer to sleep with their heads to one side all the time but
you
>and Roger are the only two parents I have ever heard claim their kids
would
>not sleep well supine. Perhaps that is because I counsel my patients from
>early on and so the kids become accustomed to supine sleeping from early
on
>whereas you and Rog never really bought into the whole concept (and
probably
>took a perverse pleasure in not following the standard advice).

I'd say I see about one family a year where the infant is put to sleep
prone because of a dramatic difference in quality of sleep. I
appropriately counsel the parents, who are generally well aware of the
risk, and they make the decision, sometimes with great difficulty, to
continue to allow the patient to sleep prone. The vast, vast majority
of infants, on the other hand, who have any preference, hate being
prone, and in fact many infants have to be coached to tolerate "tummy
time."

PF