Baby Head Shape When Born
Why does my baby have a conehead after my vaginal birth.
Baby head shape when born. A conehead baby is a newborn with a head thats pointy or as the name suggests cone shaped after making his way through the vagina at birth. Youll notice two soft areas at the top of your babys head where the skull bones havent yet grown together. When babies are born their skulls are soft which helps them pass through the birth canal. In other cases head shape changes after birth as a result of pressure on the back of the head when the baby lies on his or her back.
Youll notice two soft areas at the top of your babys head where the skull bones havent yet grown together. The babys head shape resembles a parallelogram from above. Plagiocephaly means oblique head from greek plagio meaning oblique and cephale meaning head. Head is flat on one side.
It can take 9 18 months before a babys skull is fully formed. This means that there is a flat area on the back or side of the head. In other cases head shape changes after birth as a result of pressure on the back of the head when the baby lies on his or her back. At birth your babys head has an average circumference of 138 inches and makes up about a quarter of the length of her body imagine that ratio on a grown up.
Sometimes a babys head is molded unevenly while passing through the birth canal. In either case contact your babys doctor.