Friday, November 03, 2006

Splitting up and Torticollis

Today i brought Mr. Aidan to the Doctor's to check out his neck, he always keeps it to the right side(if you look back at the pictures on my blog of Aidan, you will see what i am talking about.) Turns out that it is something called Torticollis, which pretty much means "tilted" neck, something like a stiff neck in a way. This is something that probably happened gradually over time. To fix it, i am supposed to put heat on the stiffness, and work on stretching out his neck 2 times a day or more, of course he is not happy with this, it hurts. His doctor also notified a developmental daycare and preschool which specializes in pediatric physical therapy, i am supposed to call them on monday and hopefully get set up for sometime this week. This will help get his neck stretched out and they will show me more ways to do it at home also, another perk is this is a free program which is nice, because that could get expencive! Also today, Layla and Kendall took off to Nebraska, since Aidan had his Dr. Appointment he didn't go. They are only gone for the night to work out some family things. This will be the first night they have been split up, although they don't sleep in the crib together, i think now the reason Aidan gets so upset in the crib is because of his stiff neck, so hopefully we can work that kink out and get him back to sleeping with Layla in the crib. Well, thats all i have for an update right now.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh I am glad its a free program and it sounds like Aidan will be fine with time. I am glad its not any thing more serious. I will look up that word on line, Torticollis, you should too to see what it says about it. love you! have a nice quiet evening :)

Anonymous said...

Do you remember me talking about Adrianna's torticollis? Hers was to the left side, and she was diagnosed with it when she was 3 months old, so close to Aidan's age. We think she mainly got it from sleeping in her carseat (upright) so much.

Here is the link where I blogged about it.
http://noreimerreason.com/?p=256