I hope there is someone here who can help me. 
When my DS1 was a baby he developed a flat head on one side of his skull because he would always look one way when he was sleeping. I took him to the doctor about this at the time and I repeatedly mentioned it to the nurses when he had well child check ups - they all said to me that he would grow out of it and I readily accepted this. When he was 6 months and sitting it up it got noticeably better very quickly. Fast forward to when he was walking and he would occasionally tilt his head to the side when wandering around. I thought it was very mild and that I was the only one who noticed, no one ever said anything to me about it and it never affected him physically - he is very athletic and has hit all of his physical milestones early. His flat head continued to resolve and now at age 3 it is almost gone, you wouldn't know there was anything different there unless you went and felt his head. He also now sleeps with a straight head so this combined with the resolving flat head led me to believe he was growing out of it so all was well.
Anyway, 6 months ago he started kindy and after a couple of months the kindy teachers brought up his head tilt with me. I was super surprised as, like I said, I really believed it was not noticeable to anyone. I took him back to the doctor about it and was again fobbed off by the doctor who checked his spine and range of muscle motion and told me he was doing it out of habit, not because there was anything wrong. She said to just encourage him to keep his head straight and he should hopefully stop doing it.
Well, today I dropped him off at kindy and the head teacher approached me and said they were still concerned about it, they'd been encouraging him to keep his head straight too after the last doctor visit and they believe there has been no change. We also agreed that he does it more when he's tired.
So I am going to take him back to the Dr tomorrow and I'm going to push her until she refers him to physio, but I've been sitting here almost in tears over this, feeling like I've failed him and I should have pushed harder when he was a baby for them to do something as if I had it might have been fixed by now. I'm also worrying that he's too old for physio to work and he might need surgery.
After doing some reading online it appears his flat head issues actually arose because he's had an issue with his neck muscles all along (torticollis) and I am feeling really angry that all the times I mentioned it to a Dr/nurse, not one of them checked his neck or mentioned that's what it could be. I mean, I'm not a medical professional, what was I supposed to do but believe them he'd be totally fine?
Really sad and lost about this and hoping that with a bit of physio we can get this head tilt sorted out so my little boy doesn't have an ongoing issue with it.
When my DS1 was a baby he developed a flat head on one side of his skull because he would always look one way when he was sleeping. I took him to the doctor about this at the time and I repeatedly mentioned it to the nurses when he had well child check ups - they all said to me that he would grow out of it and I readily accepted this. When he was 6 months and sitting it up it got noticeably better very quickly. Fast forward to when he was walking and he would occasionally tilt his head to the side when wandering around. I thought it was very mild and that I was the only one who noticed, no one ever said anything to me about it and it never affected him physically - he is very athletic and has hit all of his physical milestones early. His flat head continued to resolve and now at age 3 it is almost gone, you wouldn't know there was anything different there unless you went and felt his head. He also now sleeps with a straight head so this combined with the resolving flat head led me to believe he was growing out of it so all was well.
Anyway, 6 months ago he started kindy and after a couple of months the kindy teachers brought up his head tilt with me. I was super surprised as, like I said, I really believed it was not noticeable to anyone. I took him back to the doctor about it and was again fobbed off by the doctor who checked his spine and range of muscle motion and told me he was doing it out of habit, not because there was anything wrong. She said to just encourage him to keep his head straight and he should hopefully stop doing it.
Well, today I dropped him off at kindy and the head teacher approached me and said they were still concerned about it, they'd been encouraging him to keep his head straight too after the last doctor visit and they believe there has been no change. We also agreed that he does it more when he's tired.
So I am going to take him back to the Dr tomorrow and I'm going to push her until she refers him to physio, but I've been sitting here almost in tears over this, feeling like I've failed him and I should have pushed harder when he was a baby for them to do something as if I had it might have been fixed by now. I'm also worrying that he's too old for physio to work and he might need surgery.
After doing some reading online it appears his flat head issues actually arose because he's had an issue with his neck muscles all along (torticollis) and I am feeling really angry that all the times I mentioned it to a Dr/nurse, not one of them checked his neck or mentioned that's what it could be. I mean, I'm not a medical professional, what was I supposed to do but believe them he'd be totally fine?
Really sad and lost about this and hoping that with a bit of physio we can get this head tilt sorted out so my little boy doesn't have an ongoing issue with it.
