Thinking A Head

We walked out of our last visit to the Pediatrician with Baby's latest measurements. It's funny how one's baby is always being compared to the rest of the babies in America. That's probably something we continue doing as adults, but our doctors stopped reminding us of how above or below average we were while we were too young to be psychologically scarred by this information. So according to the charts, our boy is a taller than average (25" long, 75th-90th percentile), average weighing (13.5 pounds, 50th percentile), with a below average head (40 cm, 25th percentile).

Speaking of his tiny head, our biggest concern so far is Baby's case of plagiocephaly, or more commonly known as flat head syndrome. Our boy was used to leaning to one side when he was born, and with the insistence of sleeping on his back to combat SIDS, there was little we could do to keep his soft baby skull from being indented by gravity.

The Pediatrician referred us to a "Noggin Nest,"which looks like a really soft hemorrhoid pillow for your head. Having the baby sleep on this velvet donut allows the pressure on the back of his head to be more evenly distributed, ensuring a round-headed baby once more!