Helmet Stories

My youngest son had a very flat head as an infant. My pediatrician diagnosed the problem as plagiocephaly, and sent me to visit a specialist at Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital. Experts are afraid the extreme flattening of the skull could lead to brain and vision problems, so the use special helmets to reshape the skull.

I was horrified to learn that my cute little 7 month old was going to need to wear a plastic helmet 22 hours/day for 4 months. I was further troubled whem I realized that Blue Cross Blue Shield covers zero of the costs, because the consider it to be a cosmetic intervention.

My first blogging experience was a blog about Brendan’s helmet. If you have friends with plagiocephaly or you’ve just wondered about babies wearing helmets, you can read some of Brendan’s story here.