Newborns' soft skulls can be misshapen in childbirth, which usually resolves on its own within the first month or so. But some babies develop positional plagiocephaly, a condition often caused by ...

In 1992, the American Academy of Pediatrics introduced the"back to sleep” campaign. Before then, Americans traditionally put their babies to sleep on their tummies, but that position was ...

In a new study, infants averaging six months of age who exhibited positional plagiocephaly (flat head syndrome) had lower scores than typical infants in observational tests used to evaluate cognitive ...

Parents of brachycephalic infants who are concerned about their infant's head shape should be counseled and reassured that it is normal and that no treatment is necessary. Prevention measures should ...

New research published in the BMJ suggests that for positional skull deformation in infants – flattening of the skull as a result of laying in the same position for long periods – wearing a corrective ...

When Sara Pacheco takes her 2-month-old son in for checkups, he gets all the measuring, weighing and stethoscope time you might expect. But the doctor also carefully examines the shape of the baby’s ...

Does your baby seem to have a head that’s flatter on one side than the other? Positional plagiocephaly is a term used to describe a baby’s flattened or misshapen head — usually on the back or one side ...

Deformational plagiocephaly (DP) refers to asymmetry of the infant skull characterized by flattening or deformation. DP can include facial and neck asymmetry. Congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) is ...

campaign started 10 years ago, the number of sudden infant death cases has dropped more than 40 percent. Now, there is a concern that babies are spending too much time on their backs. Emma Coppedge ...

Putting babies on their backs to sleep has sharply cut the rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), but it has also left nearly half of infants with a flattened heads, a new Canadian study ...