Helmet head

Seems like whenever I judge others, I get a good dose of humility. Example - I used to think that people who met serving in the same mission and got married after must have been bad missionaries.  And so I married an elder. More relevant to this post, before I had kids, the daughter of someone I used to work with had to wear a helmet as a baby.  And I assumed that it must be because her parents hadn't held her enough.  And now Alex needs a helmet.  It's about time I stop judging.

Curse the back to sleep campaign!  I noticed when Alex was about 4 months old that he was favoring one side of his head and tried everything from neck stretches to changing the side of the bed he sleeps on to try and correct the flat spot that had started to form.  3 months later things are not a lot better, so his pediatrician referred us to a place to get him fitted for a helmet.  Well, really they just took some measurements to justify to our insurance that it's not purely cosmetic (it sort of is, but seriously who in their right mind would want to spend over 2 grand on a helmet that your baby had to wear 23 hours a day for 3 months, just for kicks?)  The next appointment will be to have them cover his head in plaster. All this sounds like no fun but I'm pretty confident that we'll regret it if we don't do something about it while there's still a chance.  As is usually the case, I expect I'll be more traumatized than the baby.

Ben's quote of the day:  That's not a good idea.  Only toy and candy are good ideas.