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

On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:22:47 GMT, "JG" <jg030103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>"PF Riley" <pfriley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>news:3f0a4fb5.131166638@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> I'd say 48% sounds about right in my experience. What you fail to
>> realize is that for most of them, the deformity resolves with time.
>> Back to Sleep started in full force around 1994. Do you know many
>> 9-year-olds with misshapen heads?
>
>I know a couple of teenagers with rather severe craniofacial
>abnormalities, but not because of supine sleeping.  What I have
>difficulty understanding is why the parents of the 48% with misshapen
>heads either didn't notice the problem developing (!) or didn't take
>corrective action (e.g., the suggestions in the article) sooner...

And yet again we revisit a common theme from you, JG. Either by
arrogance or ignorance (or both?) you seem to way overestimate the
average intelligence and common sense of the American public. As CBI
has pointed out, your problem in this case is not with the AAP
dispensing the advice, but with your perception that it shouldn't be
necessary.

I would say about half of the families to whom I point out the typical
occipital flattening and even occasional rhomboidal deformity
(unilateral occipital with contralateral frontal flattening) of
positional plagiocephaly during the 4 month check-up genuinely had not
noticed it themselves. How, then, would you expect these parents to
have begun taking corrective action?

PF