Aurelia's Newest Accessory

Plagiocephaly, yet another word I hadn't heard of before having our baby.  Add it to the list of hydrocephalus, torticollis, septum pellucidum, corpus callosum, cortical visual impairment, and optic nerve hypoplasia (which she does not have).  My medical vocabulary is growing.

Plagiocephaly means flattened head.  It most commonly occurs when a baby sleeps or lays in the same position.  Aurelia has never liked resting on her shunt, meaning the left side of her head is quite flat.  Luckily, this problem has a fairly easy, absolutely adorable fix:

She's smiling now, but the initial transition was ROUGH!  It didn't help that they cut the ear gaps in the wrong place.  Bless her pointy little head.  This pink helmet is a temporary fix.  I have something much more exciting planned for the real helmet, stay tuned.  

I took a birds-eye before shot of her flat little noggin.  But the camera is in the car and it's raining too hard.

In other news, our days have been filled with 6 month follow-ups.  We've seen her pediatrician and her neurologist already.  We still have endocrinology, genetics, GI,  and neurosurgery to go.  And weekly physical therapy sessions have commenced (including daily homework).   She also has a big assessment on Friday with a therapy place that has a few more specialists.  It's a busy time in the Hawkin's Household!