It's common for babies to be born with misshapen heads after passing through the narrow birth canal due to their malleable and separate skull bones. Newborn and infant skull bones will usually not ...

A condition that causes a newborn’s skull to be misshapen, craniosynostosis occurs in about 1 in 2,000 births—and it should be treated. Plastic surgeon Dr. Faizi Siddiqi and neurosurgeon Dr. John R.

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 ...

When doctors said there was no cause for alarm after her baby girl was born with a head shaped like a football, a Queensland mum knew she had to take matters into her own hands. When her little girl ...

Have you noticed a change in your baby’s head shape and wondered whether it is part of normal development? Many parents notice mild flattening during the early months, mainly because babies spend a ...

Scientists have mapped how the shape of a baby's head changes during childbirth to learn more about the process known as fetal head molding. Compared with other mammals, the human pelvis is not shaped ...