Torticollis - Charlotte,NC

well flat head is usually due to torticollis. listen if you think your baby has it bring it up again with the doctor. it is something that can easily be corrected but i'd rather you work with a physical therapist to explain the exercises. i will try but seek your ped's recommendation too. you put the baby on its back facing you, you out your hand on top of his head (or the side, and start gently pushing it towards the left shoulder as much as it goes without hurting the baby, and then count slowly 1-5, then bring it back to its normal position, then do the same thing tilting it to the right side, again count, bring back. do this a few times each side), and a few times a day. my daughter had it and it caused a flat spot which had to be corrected by a headband. correcting torticollis was the easy part. good luck

I have lots of advice and too much experience with infant torticollis and would be more than happy to share my story with you and make your journey easier than mine was. Please email me at ____@____.com so we can get in touch personally. This issue is way too involved to deal with over the net. My son (now 16 months) suffered from congenital torticollis and I went through so much with him trying to resolve it since most doctors don't know what to do. Hope to hear from you!!

Hi! I think your pediatrician should reevaluate or if he/she doesn't find anything wrong, ask for the information to contact your local birth to three program. They will help you evaluate it. :-) And they probably have a physical therapist or occupational therapist that they can refer you to. You may be able to find your local birth to three program for a free evaluation by googling your county with "birth to three program". HTH Googling it is how I found ours; not sure why pediatricians do not tell parnet about them more often. :-)

Hi K., there are some simple stretches you can do daily to help even if its not toricollis-Just look them up online or you can find them in the book Baby 411. Also, a pediatric chiropractor can work wonders. A lot of babies see physical therapists for this as well. Good luck!

it's more if he tilts his head to one side that is what my daughter did

My daughter had torticollis and the pediatrican wasn't too concerned but I was. I referred myself with her signature to a pediatric physical therapist and I was right. She gave me exercises to do with her and PT appointments to evaluate her progress. Even with doing everything right she still had to have a helmet to reshape her head. She is 2 1/2 now and as beautiful as ever. So basically go with your gut feeling and ask to be referred tp a pediatric PT. Hope this helps. There is also something called a cinus ( I think that's the spelling) baby halo that you can use to help with the flat head to hopefully avoid a helmet. Good luck.

your little one to a pediatric Chiropractor! It is easily fixed by gentle manipulations, but only a DC trained in that technique should attempt it!