May 2012

Madison’s Story

We’ll never forget when the doctor came into our hospital room on Christmas Eve day, only eight hours after our daughter was born, and said, “We’re taking Madison to have her head X-rayed because of the indentation on the left side. It may be a fracture that happened while she was going through the birth canal.”

Reshaping the Head: Treating Unilateral Coronal Synostosis

A baby’s brain grows rapidly before birth and during infancy. The brain has room to grow, because, early on, the head is not solid. Instead, it consists of a number of bones, known as plates, separated by narrow openings. As the brain enlarges, the plates also gradually grow toward each other. The junctions where the plates meet are called sutures.

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