There’s no doubt that Hunter, Jackson and Kaden Howard look adorable in their tiny little helmets.
But those helmets are there for a very serious reason — the 6-month-old triplets were born with craniosynostosis, a rare birth defect that causes a baby to be born with an abnormally shaped head.
They underwent laparoscopic surgery at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York, to repair their skulls on January 5 and 6, at just 11 weeks old, and were unveiled at a news conference there earlier this week. The triplets have to wear the helmets 23 hours a day, seven days a week...
But those helmets are there for a very serious reason — the 6-month-old triplets were born with craniosynostosis, a rare birth defect that causes a baby to be born with an abnormally shaped head.
They underwent laparoscopic surgery at Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York, to repair their skulls on January 5 and 6, at just 11 weeks old, and were unveiled at a news conference there earlier this week. The triplets have to wear the helmets 23 hours a day, seven days a week...
- 5/3/2017
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
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