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

Ha, my baby started getting the flattened head and we were alarmed as son
as
we noticed - at about 3 months. We got a positioner and put him on his
side
to sleep.

I daresay most intelligent folks will figure it out - that is, if they are
not overwhelmed by life (too many children, work, etc.) to notice

L.

P.S. I find the lot of you rather arrogant ans silly. I do not know a
single
"doctor" that has TIME TO WRITE  silly accusations. "> And yet again we
revisit a common theme from you, JG. Either by
> arrogance or ignorance (or both?)"   To what parents are you dispensing
advice ? People in the grocery line in front of you ?

This is a very strange group.

"PF Riley" <pfriley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:22:47 GMT, "JG" <jg030103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> >"PF Riley" <pfriley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >news:3f0a4fb5.131166638@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >> 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.  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...
>
> And yet again we revisit a common theme from you, JG. Either by
> arrogance or ignorance (or both?) you seem to way overestimate the
> average intelligence and common sense of the American public. As CBI
> has pointed out, your problem in this case is not with the AAP
> dispensing the advice, but with your perception that it shouldn't be
> necessary.
>
> I would say about half of the families to whom I point out the typical
> occipital flattening and even occasional rhomboidal deformity
> (unilateral occipital with contralateral frontal flattening) of
> positional plagiocephaly during the 4 month check-up genuinely had not
> noticed it themselves. How, then, would you expect these parents to
> have begun taking corrective action?
>
> PF