Andrew had his 4 week check in appointment on Friday September 3rd. The doctor said everything looked good and that he would start to "grow into the helmet" now. I guess the helmet isn't necessarily reshaping his head, but its made a little bigger than his head has room to grow into it with a nice rounded shaped head. Its basically not letting his head grow bigger in some places, but let it grow in others (the flat spot) so that's how it works. I guess I didn't really get that until this appointment, so that was an "ah ha" moment for me. I guess that's good!
He has his next appointment on Monday September 27th to get measurements done on how much his head has grown and changed. I'm excited to see his progress and hopefully we will get news that he only has to have it a short while longer. We shall see!
He is starting to notice the helmet a little more now, by playing with the strap on the side. He also touches his head and pulls at his hair when we take it off. It probably feels very different. One thing we have noticed is that we don't worry about him falling on his head when he pulls up on things or is trying to get somewhere, because we know the helmet protects him! Ha, we laugh at that. At least we are having fun with hit!
We also just got our decals and put those on his helmet over the weekend. There is one on the back that says "Wildcats" with a Wildcat (Daddy's hockey team) and then the side says "Give Blood Play Hockey". Of course it was Dad's idea! But it does look cute. We are going to try and buy another sticker with his name on it for the front. I'll have to post a picture on here of it once I take one!
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