On the home stretch

It’s been over the 2-4 month range of Silas wearing his helmet.  We are now sitting at the 5 month mark and getting annoyed with helmet.  Silas has had the helmet on more than half his life – easy to do when you are only 8 ½ months old.  When I walk into daycare, I look for his blue camo helmet not for his pretty blue eyes or chubby cheeks. If he ever doesn’t have it on, I have a slight panic on “where is Silas” or “oh no, I’m a bad mom, I don’t recognize my own kid…..but seriously, which one is he”.

We have seen great results and we are almost there, but we miss cuddling with our baby. The helmet gets in the way – even Silas is getting stuck when he’s crawling around.  Maybe it’s a good thing he can’t fit in all the crevasses that he wants to get into since he is doing a pretty mean army crawl and pulling himself up on to everything. He’s gotten stuck crawling in under the coffee table, crawling around the couch, and under the kitchen table. 

Another perk is that the helmet has prevented many bruises and tears.  He thinks that he is invincible since nothing hurts his head.  He will be surprised when he hits his head the first time and it actually hurts.

We keep being told let’s see where we are in two weeks and two weeks later it’s the same thing.  The good news is that we have seen a big improvement on his head shape and it is our decision to keep him in the helmet as this point.  I guess I shouldn’t be complaining since it’s our decision.  He is now in the normal range (yea!!!); however, when I look at him, I still see he irregular shape and the “dent”.  I am sure if he had hair, it wouldn’t be noticeable.  I know his head won’t be perfect and no one’s is.  Since he has the helmet we may as well keep him in it till his head rounds out a little more.