The first few days of helmet wearing have been pretty good. Cash acts like he doesn't even know it is on his head. Like it has always been there. I am so glad about that.
Saturday we went to our local baby boutique to have some custom stickers made for his helmet. Early last week I went in and had some custom shirts made for him.
As you can see Cash is in short sleeves and no socks...in January. (my mom freaked when she saw this picture) It was so warm on Saturday and he gets so hot with the helmet on his head.
We have already made a list of other stickers we need to add. My favorite is the $ sign. :0)
I can not believe he is 5 months old already!
Our first trip to Wal-Mart was interesting. Lots of stares, a few smiles and no one spoke to him. :( Usually when we are out people always stop and talk to Cash but no one said a thing. If you see a baby with a helmet say hi! Comment on the decorations. It will help ease the anxiety of the parents. ;)
We took Cash's helmet off when we got home. (We were on the 2 on 1 off schedule) We noticed he had as very dark red, almost purple spot his head.
Red marks are common but if they don't go away within an hour we are supposed to leave the helmet off and call to schedule an adjustment. Of course this happens on a Saturday. It took a little over 2 hours to go away.
Sunday Cash didn't wear his helmet due to the red mark. Monday morning I will call STAR and see if we can get that spot fixed.
That happened to us too with STAR at the beginning and we live 2 hours away. Our daughters,was closer to the front, anyhow, after we called they got us in soon and fixed it. We have had the helmet for 5 months now and it did not happen again. She got sick last month and ran a fever for a few days, so she did not wear it and we eased her back into the helmet with the time on and off again. I like reading your blog. Thanks. It made me laugh about your trip to Wal-mart, so true that folks stare. Happens all the time in the grocery store. But, kids are usually attracted to it and ask questions.
ReplyDeleteWe also live 2 hrs from our office so I was nervous about if they could get us in or not. Thank goodness they could. I feel like I have wasted good growing time when the helmet is off for too long. :) they fixed the spot and we have had not other issues.
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