Hi all,
I have a lovely seven week old boy and overall we’re doing okay - it’s certainly up and down but these threads have given me no end of reassurance.
I am an anxious person in normal life and have always struggled with health anxiety in particular. It’s causing me one specific worry in these early weeks that I feel is becoming a bit unhealthy.
Our boy has a head turn preference which we are trying to work on. We’ve seen our doctor, who essentially said don’t worry, he’ll grow out of it, and a physio, who has given us some exercises to do. Our physio said it’s not torticollis (yet), just a preference, but it has led to a flat spot. She also said in all likelihood he’d just grow out of it. I’ve had two sessions with an osteo and didn’t notice much, but we are going to return now he’s a bit bigger.
We are doing our best to do the exercises but he hates them and really resists it, and I don’t want to be forceful (obviously). We try to reposition him as best we can during feeding and sleeping to stretch out the muscles, and we’re doing tummy time. We started this all around three weeks ago, and haven’t noticed any difference, though I appreciate it takes time.
Despite understanding all of this, I’m still finding the worry about the flat spot is becoming consuming and some days it’s all I think about when I look at him. It’s robbing me of enjoying this period more. The other morning I couldn’t bring myself to go out for a walk with him in the pram because of it, which I know isn’t healthy. I am considering asking my GP for some more help.
Does anyone have any reassuring stories of flat spots that resolved/weren’t a problem with this sort of issue?! Or of head turns? I’d like to try and put this in perspective as much as I can. Thank you in advance!