If you look to the right of this column, at the sidebar where my links are housed, you'll see one there for CAPPS, an extensive and valuable resource for anyone dealing with craniosynostosis and also plagiocephaly. Ironically, I didn't use the resource much until after my own daughter had undergone surgery to correct her metopic craniosynostosis. [more]

I'll be spending the morning today in doctors' office waiting rooms with T., as we go through her annual appointments with the surgeons who repaired her metopic craniosynostosis--a birth defect she was born with. She had surgery at six months old and, ever since that July in 2004, we've been making the trek to the hospital regularly for follow-ups. [more]