Health And General Life Care: [Plagio] Re: Provider at CIRS Palo Alto

Monday, 21 January 2008

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Hi, thanks for your response. We will go ahead and have Bob fit him
and see how things go. I have heard some good things about Bob,
although everyone agrees his bedside manner isn't great, it sounds
like he's been a good ortho for many children. Cody gets his Band in
2 days, i'm nervous!

As for Cody's head, he and my daughter (she's 3) both were off the
charts for head measurement, she had a CT at 6 mos because she was
50th percentile for height and weight and 100th+ percentile for
head.... BUT looking back and talking w/ our parents, both my husband
and I had large heads as infants/children. So, we call it the "big
head gene". My ped is monitoring him.

Thanks! :)

--- In Plagiocephaly@yahoogroups.com, "christineashok"
<christineashok@...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> We saw Bob at CIRS for my daughter's band. She had severe brachy
(flat
> in back) and a giant head :-) Bob doesn't have great bedside
manner,
> but I think he's a good ortho. To me he seems like he's trying to
be
> friendly, but it isn't natural for him. My daughter had very good
> results. For our initial scan we saw Amy, and she is definitely
> friendlier. It just turned out that she was on vacation when our
band
> came in, and generally once one of them starts working on your band,
> they stick with it until your done. I'm sure you could change to Amy
> if you want to.
>
> About the giant head.... My daughter's head was 50th percentile at
> birth, but over 90th percentile at 6 mo. They don't like to see your
> child's head change from one growth curve to another so this
concerned
> our ped. However my daughter's development was very good (on time or
> ahead) and her height and weight were 90% or higher. So at 6 mo we
got
> an ultrasound to check for hydrocephalus. CT scan is a better test,
> but since her soft spot was open and there was no sign of delay our
> ped recommended ultrasound and monitoring future growth (to avoid
the
> radiation of a CT scan). Her head was fine and more or less started
> mapping to the 95th percentile growth curve. She's 2 yrs old now and
> her height, weight and head are all about 97th.
>
> Did you little one always have a big head? Is your ped worried
about it?
>
> If you have any questions that I can answer I would be happy to. My
> daughters before and after pics are posted under Our Plagio Babies
> S/Sydney M.
>
> -christine
> sydney 2 yrs starband grad
>
> --- In Plagiocephaly@yahoogroups.com, "aleshiremom2269"
> <aleshiremom2269@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > My son Cody (8 mos.) had his Starband eval with Bob last week.
We know
> > that Cody's head measures off the charts but Bob was like "WOW,
his
> > HEAD IS HUGE!" and told me that he'd be off the charts as an 18
mo. old
> > then went on and on for a while about it. I was like "ok, I get
it my
> > kid has a big head, can we move on?" I got the feeling that
Bob's
> > overall demeanor isn't very pleasant, he got very irritated that
Cody
> > wouldn't hold his neck straight for the scan (torticollis,
hello!) and
> > now we're having him do his fitting next week. I've heard good
things
> > about Amy, but figured we should give Bob one more shot.
Actually no
> > one at the office was very friendly to us. Were they having an
off day
> > or was I? Anyway, any feedback would be great!
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>

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