Babies With Flat Heads On The Rise

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Babies with flat heads on the rise.

Doctors point out it doesn t inhibit brain development or. Although there has been a recent rise in the incidence of flat head syndrome placing your baby on the back is often not the main cause of the condition. Since the 90s we ve seen a lot of kids with flat backs of their heads taub points out. Many babies can develop a flat head as a direct result of their positioning in the womb before they are even born known as positional moulding.

The concern is a cosmetic or aesthetic one. Positional plagiocephaly also called deformational plagiocephaly is the most common type of flat head syndrome. William butler a pediatric neurosurgeon at boston s massachusetts general hospital for children says it s probably not coincidental that he s seen a boost in the number of patients with cranial flat spots a condition which he says is cosmetic. A new review of the texas birth defects registry shows that cases of flattened heads.