What’s wrong with these pictures…

A post like this is long over due but I owe it to Amy from the AllAboutPlagio Yahoo group.  So Amy and everybody else who wonders what the kidcap from ECA looked like on my Maysa, look at this and tell me what is wrong with these pictures:

Maysa had a combination of brachy and plagio which means that her head was too wide, not long enough in the back and that it was also asymmetrical.  Maysa’s head was wider right above the ears.  The entire back needed to pop out and the back right side needed to fill out more than the left to reduce her asymmetry.

The pictures below were taken about a week after she got her kidcap:

You are probably wondering about that big space between her left ear and the helmet.  You are also probably wondering about how uneven it looks in the back and about how high it sits on her head looking at the back also.  Doesn’t look like it was made for her does it?

Here is another one taken at two weeks:

Another one at three weeks:

Not much different, huh?

Here are a few other shots taken after one of the sideburns broke (Joe Terpenning had heated it because it was digging into her cheek and the next day it broke).  It took over two weeks for her to get a new one:

Mind you, we expressed our concerns to him but he always assured us that she was making good if not great progress.  As for the big gap above her ear, he said that there was one big bone plate there and that there was no way her head would just grow out in that one spot because on either side her head was covered by the helmet. 

Also, the fact that it was sitting high was no concern to him.  He would say that the more she grew, the more the helmet would go down… 

What a bunch of non-sense!  Shouldn’t that have been my red flag?  Shouldn’t that be everybody’s red flag?  I am not an expert by any means but those pictures speak volume to me now and a competent orthotist should be able to tell you that there is more than one thing wrong with these pictures and act accordingly.