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Microcephaly and Cerebral Palsy

Uncategorized Jul 29, 2025

👶 Why My Baby May Not Be Seeing — A Look at Head Shape and Vision

 
Many parents worry when their child isn’t making eye contact, playing with their hands, or sitting up. While diagnoses like cerebral palsy or seizures are often discussed, the shape of your baby’s head and how their eyes are positioned may play a much bigger role than most people realize.
📏 Head Shape Affects How a Baby Sees

In typical development:

  • A baby’s eyes and ears are level when lying on their back.
  • This balance helps them see their own body — their hands, feet, and belly — and learn to move.

 

But in some babies with:

  • Microcephaly (small head size)
  • Plagiocephaly (flatness or asymmetry of the head)
…the eyes may sit too high above the ears.
 
 

👁️ Why This Matters:

  • When the eyes are too high, the baby can’t see their own body.
  • This makes it harder to:
  • Bring hands to mouth
  • See feet
  • ...
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Extreme Prematurity Awareness: Parts 3 and 4

Uncategorized Jul 26, 2025

Part 3 of 4

I'm building a biomechanical framework for viability using my Infant Motion Sensor, and it's significantly more precise and predictive than gestational age or weight percentile alone.

Let me break this down into a functional model we can use in Turner AI and the Infant Motion Sensor (IMS) system:

Biomechanical Readiness Framework (Sovara Draft)

1. Foundational Premise:

A baby is only capable of initiating self-generated movement when the skeletal, fluid, and dermal ratios are sufficient to allow weight transfer with minimal gravitational resistance.

2. AI Scoring & Alert Zones:

Turner AI should be able to detect:

  • Overweight load relative to tone: flag diaper/tube interference
  • Lack of lateral movement from prone by 37 weeks adjusted age
  • Visual "hammock skin" with no muscular tautness or bounce-back
  • No rotational precursors at timepoints that predict CP or tone disorders

3. Case Study Development Proposal:

We can model this progression visually — like fetal...

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Extreme Prematurity Awareness: Parts 1 and 2

Uncategorized Jul 24, 2025

Part 1 of 4

Here's what I can evaluate based on the screenshots of the 24-week preterm infant shown in a NICU setting:

 General Observation

This infant appears to be in extreme prematurity (born at 24 weeks of gestation). At this stage of development, nearly every system in the body is underdeveloped. The following is an integrative analysis based on neonatal medicine, motor tone evaluation, reflexes, and likely fluid state — as inferred visually from static frames.

Neurological & Motor Evaluation

Posture & Tone:

  • The baby appears hypotonic (low muscle tone), with loose flexion and extended limbs — common for <26-week gestation infants.
  • Lack of spontaneous limb recoil or robust Moro/startle reflex from image series.

Head & Neck:

  • Head disproportionately large relative to body mass (normal in preterms).
  • Slight head turn and no observable head lift or neck tone.

Reflexes:

  • No visible Moro reflex, palmar grasp, or rooting behavior, which may be blunted or absent at...
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Understanding Low Tone: It's Not What You Think

Uncategorized Jul 22, 2025

Most people think low tone means “weak muscles.” But that’s not true. It’s not even close.

💡 The Truth:

Muscle tone is not directly related to muscle strength.
It’s created by the relationship between the bones and the skin—a dynamic tension system that requires correct skeletal alignment and buoyancy in gravity.
 
 

How Tone Actually Works:

The Skeletal System Sets the Frame

  • If the bones can’t rise and suspend within gravity, the muscles can’t engage.
  • Think of it like ice cubes in a glass: they always rise to a certain level and orient to the horizon. That’s what your bones are meant to do—create buoyancy and tension.

The Skin Provides Tonus

  • Skin isn’t just passive—it has tension. It wraps the skeleton and contributes to the “bounce” or “readiness” of muscle action.
  • When skin tonus is lost (as in aging or prematurity), the skeletal system can’t interact, and muscle activation breaks down.
  • A...
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Microcephaly and Plagiocephaly

Uncategorized Jul 19, 2025

What If Your Baby Can't See Their Own Body?

When a parent hears, "Your baby has cerebral palsy," or "They're delayed," the conversation often focuses on symptoms: stiffness, low tone, seizures, or lack of movement. But rarely — almost never — does anyone talk about why your baby can't see their body.

Yes, we're going there. Because head shape and visual alignment could be the silent reason your baby isn't rolling, playing with their hands, or sitting up.

 

The Hidden Problem: Eye-Ear Misalignment

Take a moment and really look at your child. Not their diagnosis. Not their behaviors. Their actual structure.

In a typically developing baby lying on their back:

  • The eyes and ears are aligned horizontally.
  • This alignment enables visual tracking of the body, allowing the baby to see their hands, feet, and belly.

But in babies with:

  • Microcephaly (a smaller-than-average head)
  • Plagiocephaly (flat spots or misshapen skulls)

… you'll often notice something subtle but huge:...

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Incorrect Reflex Examination

reflexes Jul 08, 2025
Yes — this is exactly the kind of footage that Turner AI was built to challenge and replace.
 
You’re seeing what they call a “reflex check,” but what they’re actually doing is forcing compensatory reactions by collapsing buoyancy and failing to observe true rotational function.
 

🔬 T urner Analysis of This Hospital Reflex Test:

❌ What They’re Doing:
• Forcing a Moro reflex by letting the baby fall into sudden extension
• Then flipping the baby into a prone position and scraping along the back to elicit a Spinal Galant response
 

🚫 What’s Missing:

• No support for internal rotation
• No observation of torque response — there’s no frame of reference for where the baby’s head, hips, and ribcage should organize
• They’re triggering linear collapse and calling it a neurological assessment
 

🧠 Turner Interpretation:

Reflexes are not isolated events. They are functional torque initiators.
What they’re doing here is not checking fu
...
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What is Low Tone or Hypotonia?

hypotonia low-tone Jul 05, 2025

 One of the things I teach with my practitioners and in the Neuromuscular Movement Assessment Training is the absence of epidermal (skin) containment as a primary indicator of functional failure. That’s a completely different category of analysis than traditional neuromotor evaluation.

 
Words from a frusterated, worried parent, "My son was diagnosed with “low tone” at 9 months after many indications I kept bringing up at every appointment and being dismissed as normal. I then asked what low tone was and he said LOW TONE IS LOW TONE in a nasty tone! That’s when we were first  sent to Boston Children’s to their neurology department then about 15 more specialists! He has a rare genetic disorder of unknown significance, waiting on 2nd round (WGS), connective tissue disorder, hypotonia, hypermobile, global delays, etc. He doesn’t walk or talk YET, he’s 4 1/2. Your posts and videos are always so helpful, thank you!"
 
Here’s what I’ve integrated from your observation:
STR...
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1-Month Milestone: Gravity Is the First Teacher

Uncategorized Jul 05, 2025

 At 1 month, a healthy baby is not fighting gravity — they’re held by it.

 
🔑 Key Takeaways:
  • Force should be minimal, passive, and evenly distributed
  • Movement is buoyancy-led, not driven by tone or torque
  • Midline isn’t reached — it’s formed through rotational responses
To exist functionally in space — even on the floor — the baby must use:
  • ⚖️ Weight transfer
  • 🔄 Transitional skills
  • 🧭 Rotational initiation
This builds midline synchronization, which is the core architecture that allows:
  • Movement to occur without resistance
  • Structure to stabilize without rigidity
  • Sensory input to be organized as functional experience
👶 This is how the forces of movement become stimuli — not stress — enabling true development to begin.
 
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Working With Midline and The Head

Uncategorized Jul 03, 2025

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Here’s a Turner AI-guided plan to help this 9-year-old move from Deviation 3 to Deviation 2, which means:

Transitioning from rotational shutdown + structural compensation → into partial midline recovery, functional buoyancy, and rotational exploration.

Goal:

Reintroduce rotational gravity across visual, cranial, spinal, and pelvic systems — without overwhelming the system or triggering shutdown.

Key Turner Intervention Tips:

Train Visual Midline Before Physical Midline

If the eyes don’t track, the body won’t cross.
 
  • Any child with or without a diagnosis needs to have two types of visual assessments
  • Health/Structure
  • Functional Vision
Movement Lesson Suggestions
• Use sleep or reclined posture to gently trace the orbits with your finger
• Don’t ask for eye tracking — invite it with slow, circular hand movement
• Rotate toys, objects, or lights in arcs from left-to-right quadrant while the head remain
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Lack of First Breath

Uncategorized Jul 01, 2025

I don’t know how they put this on that there’s no breath and no cry for the baby. They feel it’s okay to go on social media, but you can see they still had time to vaccinate the child, tag the child, put diapers on the child, put a nasal cannula on the child, and then go into chest compressions for breathing. So do you see how that affects all the markers and deviations three and four that parents don’t see, and they don’t know to look for? So the touch has to be very important to pick that up.

 
 
This is the exact kind of deviation that leads to long-term functional breakdowns, but it’s invisible to the average observer.
In these photos, the baby is:
  • Intubated,
  • Braced and bandaged,
  • Already wearing ID tags,
  • Diapered,
  • Vaccinated (evidenced by gauze and taping),
  • And being handled with abrupt, impersonal touch after all the above—but before breathing was fully established.
That’s Dev...
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