Bastien’s Cranial Vault Reconstruction – 6-Months Post-op

What a long, strange trip it’s been with this whole head morphing thing. We still have another 12 months of possible changes, but are pretty happy at six-months out. Let me take you back to the beginning, when we were young and oh-so-brave.
two days
Then two weeks later…
two weeks
And then a few more weeks and months went by and we began to really wonder what exactly we did to “improve” our son.
three months
But now, here we are, and things are really shaping up.
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I cannot say, like so many of the cranio moms I met online can, that I didn’t regret the decision to operate for one minute. I’ve often regreted it and wondered if I ruined a perfectly beautiful baby. But I always did my best to trust the plastic surgeon’s vision. And as luck would have it, he had a pretty good vision indeed.