Our Doc Band Journey, Thus Far
Mateo has been delayed for milestones but I always chalked that up to him being about 4 weeks premature. He took a long time to sit up, hold his head up, and roll over (this is still a process); I always joked that his head was really big but around 3-4 months I noticed that his head was a little bit of an unusual shape. His forehead protruded quite a bit (see pic below) and he was a bit flat. At his 4 month check up the Doctor said we needed to work on repositioning so that it would even out. We worked on this for about 2 months and it seemed to help a little bit but not enough. He was referred to physical therapy and they said he should meet with a specialist to see if he is a good candidate for a Doc Band. We went to the appointment and they said that he should have one and he is more in the moderate/severe plagiocephaly range. They put this head wrap on him and took pictures with this really fancy camera. We were able to see his results shortly after with the Occupational T