Torticollis

My little baby is not so little anymore! OK, she's still little but she seems to be passed the newborn stage now. She's just a cute little baby now, and she's a happy baby too. She coos and smiles now; it makes me so happy to see her smile. She is a very good baby. She hardly cries at all. Sometimes I set her down and then when I finish with something I go to pick her up and she has a dirty diaper- and she didn't even make one little peep, and she doesn't cry during diaper changes. She doesn't even get that upset when she's hungry. I am so lucky I have such a good baby! If she was a hard or colicky baby I would be going crazy right now with all the kids so young. It's hard enough taking care of 3 kids 3 and under, I don't know what I'd do if they were hard kids. I'm lucky they are so good.
Anyway, Tessa had her 2 month check up yesterday. She is tall! I didn't even know it. She's in the 95% for height and 50% for weight. So she's doing great. There is only one problem... :( She has a bit of torticollis or plagiocephaly Basically this is a condition that could have been present at birth due to an abnormal positioning in the womb. She pretty much had a tightening in her neck on one side, so when I lay her down she automatically turns to the right. It used to be that babies were put to sleep on their stomaches and they wouldn't spend much time with the back of their head on the mattress, it would also strenghten their neck muscles working out the condition. But now, it's "back to sleep", and this condition has become more common over the years. I feel terrible about it as a mother though, b/c Will had it, and I thought "Never again- now that I know what to do to prevent it, this will never happen again." I was clueless before I had Will that newborns needed as much tummy time as possible, that you needed to put them down in different positions in the crib so they don't always look to one side and that you need to hold them on different sides. So with Will I was kind of upset that I didn't know that, but everything turned out ok. This time I've done all those things!! And still she prefers the right side. I noticed it when she was about 4 weeks old and since then I've been doing the neck streches they recommed for Will after every diaper change. She's gotten better where her range of movement has improved significantly. She will turn to the left when she hears my voice on that side, or if I have her track an object, but she now has a flat spot on the back of her head so if you lay her down flat the flat side doesn't quite touch the mattress and her head kind of automatically goes down to that flat side- it's just more comfortable for her. So anyway, it makes me feel like crying- my poor sweet little baby girl. I wish I could've prevented it and I hope that it will still improve on it's own, b/c if it doesn't she'll have to wear a helmet, or a doc band (you can see the picture of Will with one) and I don't want my little girl to have to wear one if it can be prevented. Will had one and really on the positive side it only took a couple months and his head was all better. So the time really was short, but I hope and pray that it'll fix itself with the home treatments we are doing. I know God could send a small miracle our way if it was His will. Maybe it is not his will, and I would be ok with that too, but I am praying that everything will work out.
Check out this before and after photo http://www.cranialtech.com/treatment/caseb.html The before is like Tessa's head, you can see why her head would automatically fall to that side.