12 Tips To Prevent Flat Head Syndrome In Babies | Plagiocephaly Prevention & Treatment
This video is about 12 useful tips to maintain round head shape with good muscle strength and coordination in babies. Sometimes a newborn's head is molded unevenly while passing through the birth canal. Babies are born with soft areas on their heads called fontanels. The skull bones in the soft spots haven't yet grown together. The soft spots allow a baby's relatively large head to move through the narrow birth canal. They also accommodate a baby's rapidly growing brain during infancy. A newborn's head that is shaped unevenly right after birth often rounds out over time. In other cases, a baby's head shape changes after birth. This is a result of pressure on the head when the baby lies in the same position often. Spending too much time lying flat in one position can lead to an uneven head shape well past the time when birth-related lopsidedness evens out. This is known as positional molding or positional plagiocephaly.
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