Harper's head- pre surgery (10.5 months)

Harper is having her surgery tomorrow so i thought I would take some pictures of her head to compare with after surgery.

Here is a comparison from 6 weeks old


Harper's Head- 4 months

2011 is going to be a busy year for us Cranio wise, we already have 3 upcoming appointments, in Febuary we meet with the Opthamologist and the Neurosurgeon. Harper will also have a blood workup done at one of these appointments. We are still waiting on an appointment for the Neuorologist, but that will be closer to her surgery. Then in March we have a follow up appointment with the Craniofacial Plastic Surgeon hopefully by then we will have a better idea of a surgery date, at the moment all we know is between 8 - 12 months so it could be anywhere from May - September. They told us that we would have firm date only 3 weeks before surgery.

Here are some new pictures of Harper's head taken at 4 months:

In this picture you can see the pinching at Harper's temples which causes indentation above her eyebrows.

Harper's Head- 3 months

Harper turned 3 months old on Tuesday, she is growing up so fast.

We took her for her CT today, the plan was to feed her, get her to go to sleep and then have her scanned. So we got there about 45mins before her appointment and I had just finished feeding her when they called us through 15 minutes early, I don't think I have ever been seen early before! So we went in, I wrapped her up and gave her a cuddle, she was really calm so we decided to scan her anyway. They laid her head onto a "beanbag" it was plastic mat filled with beans then they moulded the bag around her head and vacuumed all the air out so it would keep her head still, she didn't mind at all, she actually looked quite comfy. The CT machine looks like a giant donut and the table passes in and out of the hole in the centre, all up the scan took less than 1 minute and we were able to stand with her while she was scanned. We were in and out within 10 minutes.

Next we go see the neurosurgeon who will be operating with the craniofacial surgeon, we have an appointment the first week of February to meet with him. We are still waiting on appointments with the opthamologist (eye doctor) and the neurologist who we will see closer to surgery. So for now we just get to enjoy Christmas!

Here are some pics of Harper at 3 months old:

Harper's Head- 2 months

Updated photos of Harper's head taken at 2 months old:

Look at that crazy hair!

Harper's Head- 6 weeks

Here are some pictures of Harper's head shape that were taken last week when she was 6 weeks old:

In this pic you can easily see the ridge running from her nose up to the centre of her forehead. This is called a Metopic Ridge

This pic shows how her head shape is triangular (I call it teardrop shaped)

This is the Trigonocephaly