The Bates Family
Allen, Leah, Brookelyn, & Braedyn

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

The Helmet is OFF!

Today Braedyn got his helmet OFF! Here he is at the doctor in his LAST helmet photo:
And here is big sis watching over her "spikey" before the doctor came in.We went to see the doctor this morning at 9:30 and got to see our technition, Lisa, pretty quickly. After stripping Braedyn down, they did another set of the 3-D photos. Braedyn put the cute little panty hose back on-Brookelyn could not stop laughing at how funny he looked-and posed on the podium. Here are the before and after pictures:
In the picture above you can see how flat the back of his head was before, and how much more filled out he is now. Look especially from his neck up the back. You can also see how much more head he has straight back from his ear in the second picture.In this picture you can see how much more he has filled out on the back right side. He is much more symmetrical back there. Also look how much more oval his head is on the right, where on the left he is much more round. This helps show how much his forehead has filled out too.
Then, we waited a little longer before going in for the "mug shot" pictures. The doctor will be emailing those to me in the next two weeks, so once I have them I will post them. But, she did share Braedyn's "numbers" with me. The short story is that they measure the ratio of three different places on his head. A normal measurement is between 1-2. Braedyn's first measurement was initially 11, but now is 1. That is an incredible change! His second measurement was initially 8, but now is 1. And, his final measurement was initially 3, but now is 1. So, bottom line, the helmet did what is was supposed to and he is even more perfect than before! Here is Braedyn's first helmet free picture--he wanted to rock the hoodie!

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