Well I've just been through my first parenting scare! My 4 month old daughter went into the doctors for her second round of immunizations, standard stuff. Anyway the doctor noticed she had a flattening of once side of the back of her head. It is noticable and we have mentioned it to him before at the 1 month check up. Anyway he decides she should have x-rays done to insure nothing is wrong. not telling my wife anything about what he suspects or how to get her off the flat spot (we are not morons just would have been nice for him to even say "hey u might want her to lay in a new position when sleeping")
Takes 5 days for them to get back with the results (after much nagging on our part). Nothing is wrong just have to adjust her sleeping position to get her from rolling on to that particular spot. My wife and I had been talking about the flat spot for months now trying to get her off it when we can. I am glad the x-rays were fine and its just a postional flat spot but the doctors effing lack of concern for 4 effing months, then to order a x-ray total freaking my wife out is just unacceptable. He barely looked at her head and everytime we pointed out the flat spot he fluffed it off with oh it will go away. We called them on friday for about 30th time to get the results each time either leaving a message with no return call or just no news yet. I can take the no news yet but when we finally did get the results it went something like this:
-called the doctors, spoke with the nurse. stated x-rays were still at the hostipal and x-ray doc has yet to see them
-1 minute later different nurse calls back from the same office stating they have the results and they are negative. clearing indicating the first nurse was just lying or clueless.
Fast forward to now and we have a new doctor
, who when we took our daughter in to register with his office, he does a standard check up on all his new patients. anyway first thing he does is talk about the flat spot and gives us some info on how to get her off it and so forth.
sorry rant over. although it was something so simple and not a major issue, it was my first look into health of my so far health little girl. made me feel powerless and so out of control.
oh and sometimes the internet is not a good thing to have as you can look up some stuff that will NOT put you at easy when you are wonder what maybe wrong.
now lots of tummy time, new sleeping position and a new effing doctor who is more worried about his patients than his golf score.