This is our story of trying to round out our 10 months old flat head. He has mild brachycephaly\plagiocephaly and will wear a helmet. We hope to share the information and research that we find along the way and continue to learn as we go. Hopefully we can be a source of comfort to you in your own journey as we seek our own comfort in knowing that we're doing what's best for our son.

Monday, April 25, 2011

What to do with your helmet when baby's got a fever?!?!?!

Little Easton has had a fever for 4 days.
Yes, you heard that correctly, 4 long days.

We noticed that when we took his helmet off his fever would go down and stay down.

When we'd put it back on, he'd get EXTRA sweaty.
The normal day to day sweating has stopped so we know it's due to his fever.
He does still sweat during naps and playing outside but not just normal day to day wear. 
That only lasted a few weeks.  

BJ did say we could remove the helmet when the fever spikes and put it back on when it goes down.

However, we just kept it off. 
Yesterday we took it off at 4pm and just put it back on today about 4pm.

Obviously this isn't ideal but Easton didn't seem to mind once we put it back on.

I don't think we missed out on any growth spurts and he slept on his belly so I don't think we made it any worse.

I do like to follow the rules and do 23\1 but for this weekend, we had to deal with the fever first.

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