Kaiya's Story

Baby Kaiya was due August 20th. She was born on June 23rd. On the 20th of June I was hit making a left hand turn (in my van) and this crash put me into labor. They tried for 3 days to stop it and on the 23rd I sat up in bed and my water broke. Kaiya was born at 3:14 pm at 31 weeks weighing an amazing 4lbs 5 oz. She is a little fighter and only spent 22 days in the NICU. But from birth her left eye didnt open as quickly as her right eye. She didnt have a ridge on her head at that point just the eye thing. I never thouht anything of it. Just a preemie thing. Well our blessing came home on July 15th. She is the most wonderful sweet happy baby I have ever seen. I love her so very much... By August I saw the ridge over the right coronal and with the eye issue I started worrying. I thought oh no. I cant spend months obsessing over this baby's head. So at her 2 month well child I brought it up with her pedi and it said the typical positional it will go away. It will go away. At 4 months he said .. I do see what you are talking about with her eye let me look into it. He noted that she had a great over all headshape. Even to say she had one of the roundest heads in his practice. At that time her overall shape was awesome. That ridge was still present but overall shape is great. At her last synagis shot he just looked at her with a look on his face. (He didnt give her the shot just saw her in passing). We have used this pedi for 11 years I know that was a look of concern. In the mean time I emailed Dr Fearon in Dallas Texas a set of pictures and he confirmed what I believed to be true. His words were -----------------------------------------------------------
I looked at the pictures that you sent me of Kaiya and I think I do see what you are worried about. In some of the pictures it looks like your daughter might have a right sided plagiocephaly from coronal synostosis.
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Insert lots and lots of tears here. This is what started Kaiya's Cranio Journey...