http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4640949.stm
'We put our baby into a helmet'
Looking at William Barker now it is hard to see any blemishes. He is a
beautiful bouncing baby.
But just six months ago his face looked strangely misshapen.
His forehead and cheeks had became more prominent on the right side, his
right eye looked larger than the left, his ears look misaligned and he
had a flat spot on the right side of the back of his head, from where he
had been lying.
His parents had to make the difficult decision to take action on what
was largely a cosmetic problem and encase his head in a plastic helmet
23 hours a day to correct the asymmetry. ......."
The article contains this sad line though:
"Some people thought it was a kind of crash helmet for children and said
where could they get one."
--
Tony
"I did make a mistake once - I thought I'd made a mistake but I hadn't"
Anon