Liam and Gibson: Liam and His Band...About Halfway There!

Tomorrow, Liam will have had his second DOC Band for six weeks. He's doing great in it, and there are definite improvements. Each time we go for an adjustment, his head has grown a millimeter a week. So since we go every other week, each time I'm told he had 2 mm of growth. So overall, his head has probably grown 6 mm in the new band. I think it only grew 7 or maybe 8 in the total time in the previous band, and we still have 6 or 8 more weeks to go in this one. I honestly wish his head would grow faster, but there's obviously nothing we can do to speed things up there! His head looks so much better, but you can tell there is still more that needs to be done. I'm trying not to think too much on it, but I often wonder if even this second band won't be enough to "fix" his head. Even if it's not perfect (and really, we don't expect it to be perfect-no one has a perfect head), he will not be getting another band.

I am ready to be able to kiss that sweet baby's head all I want (and it not smell like gym socks), but I have to admit it's handy that he has a "crash helmet" at this stage of his life. Liam is fully in the crawling and pulling up and starting to cruise stage. He falls down a lot. Bumps his head sometimes (not hard). So yeah, I think I am much more willing to just let him fall since he has the band on. At the rate he's going, it's possible he might be walking by the time he gets the band off. Maybe not, though. I think he'll definitely get all the steps together before he's year old. Such a determined little dude. He will not be still anymore. Fast too. With the crawling at least. He's still cautious with the cruising. Probably won't be for long, though!