Dorothy, now 16 months old, was diagnosed following her 6 week check with a health visitor.
campaign, which is calling for improvements to baby health care across England. The aim is to end the post code lottery of support that's currently offered to newborns when it comes to contact with health professionals, in order to prevent medical conditions slipping through the net.
"Before we moved to Glasgow we lived in Plymouth. With our previous children, we didn't really see the health visitor. If we still lived down there, we don't think she would have received the same care as she has up here. We're so lucky that we had such a good and experienced health visitor here. Even though she didn't know exactly what was wrong, she knew something wasn't right.
The diagnosis blindsided the family who had previously never heard of hydrocephalus. A rapidly growing head is one of the key indicators of the condition, and is one of the reasons why head circumference measurements should be taken and recorded routinely throughout a baby's first year.
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