Plagiocephaly (flat-head) & Torticollis (stiff neck)

Sleeping on her left with all her "accessories"

Following this rant, we decided to force her to sleep like this with immediate effect. We also quickly made appointment to see a physiotherapist based on a recommendation by another experienced mummy who went through the same heartache as us.

Her head shape as at 29 March 2012:

Moderate Plagiocephaly: Top View

One can observe that her ears are misaligned from the top view. Hub said that this misalignment is better than before (in Jan) but I am still worried. Her assessment score was 12/24 which to me is NOT good (the lower the better). We have been doing the exercises mentioned to us before and it seems that we have to increase the frequency and intensity, especially on neck/head rotation !! EVERYTHING MUST be on HER LEFT now.

To encourage her further, I also demonstrate it is fun to exercise her neck and do head rotation by singing and dancing in front of her via the Chinese healthy song by Mavis Fan (范 晓 萱). Of course I did some impromptu lyrics revision by emphasizing the neck portions which I think is more relevant to her.

Looking at her progress now, I think it is more difficult for her to do her neck exercise as she screams whenever we try to tilt her head away from her shoulder. We have to think of all ways to coax her to get into action. I hate it when she ignore me sometimes when I speak to her on her left but when I speak to her on her right, she turn her head occasionally to look at me. =(

I am beginning to regret why I didn't allow her (due to health risks) to be place in baby swing/hammock  (摇篮) Maybe that would relieve the flat head problem but not stiff neck. 

Sigh, take away the self-blaming now and just gotta do our best. Hopefully, by 1 year old, she will grow out of it.