Posts tonen met het label pressure helmet. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label pressure helmet. Alle posts tonen

zondag 1 augustus 2010

Seven months


Today is your seven-month-birthday. Also today we discovered that you get bored by your usual routine. You need more challenges, bodywise and mindwise. So we let you sit up more, in the corner of a grown-up chair. There you sit like your visiting, sharing small talk and inspecting all around you. We let you sit in your babychair too, with some new playstuff. Eating in the babychair is still a little hard; you bend forward to bite from your spoon, and subsequently drop the food from your mouth. You are used to being fed in your bouncer, leaning a little backwards.
You have been wearing your pressure helmet some time now, last week we went to have it adjusted, so now you wear it for longer hours at a time. You don't mind, luckily.
As we enter Month 8, we see so many changes in you that it's eminent you are getting bigger and wiser. Your small little world is changing into a big big world, were new experiences wait around every corner.

donderdag 8 juli 2010

Pressure helmet, Part 2

Today we went to the instrumentmaker again, for the fitting of the pressure helmet.

picture 1: the unveiling of the helmet!


Flyn got to try on the interior wrapper, which looked very funny.
pictures 2 to 5:





After the the therapist cut the interior wrapping to size (leaving room for ears and eyes :-), Flyn finally got to wear his helmet for the first time. He looks kind of cute, with the white helmet covered with little bears.

pictures 6 and 7



The helmet will be ready to wear in a week and a half. From then on, Flyn will get to wear the helmet 22 hours a day. To be continued ...

donderdag 24 juni 2010

Pressure helmet, Part 1

Today we went to the instrumentmaker to get a plaster mould of Flyn's head. This is needed in order to make the pressure helmet, which he needs to correct his flat head. On this picture you can see the flattening of the right sight of the occiput.


Picture 2: awaiting the procedure, playing with some plastic that the therapist gave him.

Picture 3: head swabbed with some shampoo, to make the removal of the plaster easier.

Pictures 4 and 5:bobbing net on top of it, as a foundation for the plaster.


Picture 6: drawing reference points with a blue marker.

Picture 7: undergoing the placing of the plaster.

Picture 8: getting tired and annoyed.

Picture 9: you've had enough!

Picture 10: shaping the plaster on an unhappy baby's head.

Picture 11: finally done, relieved and overwhelmed in mummy's arms.