Re: Infant flat skulls can be avoided: U.S. doctors

"JG" <jg030103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:<1GhOa.10498$Hw.7698515@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>...
> Another article for the "Well, DUH!" file.   Amazing how some people
> manage to walk without someone else (a physician?) telling them
> (headphones?) how ("Left foot...right foot...left foot...right
> foot...left foot...").
> 
> How many fights do you imagine this one little piece of advice--"Back to
> Sleep"--has caused?  Husband:  "Aaah, honey?  The back of Bubba's head
> is gettin' as flat as a pancake.  Whaddaya say we let him sleep on his
> belly for a while to see if it helps?"  Wife (in a high-pitched, panicky
> voice):  "NO! !!  No, no, no, no, NO!  He'll DIE of SIDS if we do that!
> Dr. Imdeexpert said babies should sleep on their BACKS!   So what if
> Bubba looks like some sorta weird doofus; at least he's ALIVE!!")

Right.  How ridiculous.  I'd much rather my son live fast, die
young, and leave a beautiful corpse.  A round head would look so
much nicer in the last pictures I'd ever have of him.  (As it happens,
he never had any flattening problems, although he did have a bald
spot on the back of his head for a while.  The horror!)

From what I've read, in the majority of cases the flattening resolves
itself over time.  Even if it didn't, though, what possible implications
would this have for 'our country's future'?  Millions spent on
hat redesign, plunging us into an economic crisis?   Increased
incidence of mosquito-borne illness because the little vampires have
a nice flat surface to fasten upon?   Round-headed aliens arrive and
exterminate us all because they think we look silly?  What's the 
doomsday scenario here?

I think there are decent reasons to ignore the recommendation, and
obviously the risk to any one child is probably low.  Fear of
flat-headedness is silly though.

Beth
Sam 8/16/2002