Sentences with phrase «for head flattening»

Babies with head - turning preferences are at VERY high risk for head flattening - as high as 80 - 90 % of babies with Torticollis experience flattening on one side of the back of the head called Plagiocephaly.

Over-use of baby gear such as infant car seat carriers, baby swings, rock»n plays, napping wedges and more is a huge contributing factor to positional plagiocephaly (the fancy term for head flattening).

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Another issue with baby buckets — and other similar devices (cribs, swings etc.) where some parents leave their babies for hours on end — is «bucket head» where the back of the head flattens out and the kid then has to wear a helmet to correct it.

As people have mentioned, it was previously recommended that babies be slept on their fronts, as it is more snuggly for them, would prevent the flattening of the back of their heads, and also apparently helps with trapped wind and colic.

Wait, wait, wait... you might be asking yourself why this lady who's so passionate about reducing rates of Plagiocephaly (flattening of babies» heads) advocating for more time on the back?

Current research and the clinical experience of many health care professionals (including me) point to the fact that there are effective strategies for fighting Plagiocephaly and other forms of head flattening without using a helmet.

They are most effective for reversing head flattening when used in the first 4 months of life, but can be helpful for stopping or slowing head flattening for babies 4 - 8 months.

While effective for treating significant or persistent flattening, baby helmets («cranial bands») are not your only option for rounding out your baby's head once flattening has begun.

Signs of Torticollis include a preference for turning the head one way more than the other, head flattening on one side of the back of the head, a head tilt (ear toward shoulder) or turn (chin toward shoulder).

I'm a big advocate for using play and proactive positioning to help prevent and treat Positional Plagiocephaly (head flattening) and Torticollis (one - sided neck tightness).

The position that infant car seat carriers support your baby in isn't great for development, isn't safe for sleep AND can contribute to conditions such as Positional Plagiocephaly (head flattening) and Torticollis (one - sided neck tightness).

Because infants sleep for so many hours on their backs, the head sometimes flattens in one spot.

Flattened head syndrome is usually easy for parents to notice.

Platycephally (flattening) of the head is not necessarily if at all caused by infant sleeping on their backs but by how long babies lean their heads against hard objects or, what I call, «transformer baby furniture, or furniture that can change into many different pieces (like those transformer toys in the eighties and nineties) making it easy to keep babies heads against hard surfaces for an excessive amounts of time therein reshaping the infant's head.

You want what's best for your baby, but too many parents I've worked with were given no information about how to prevent head flattening in their babies until it was too late.

Look for flattened or sloping areas of the head and check to see if one ear is closer to the shoulder than the other.

Another practical, though less pretty looking bedding item that is great for babies being laid on their back all the time is a concave pillow to help the child avoid a flattened head.

If infants are placed on the back for a long time in the same position, it could lead to «positional plagiocephaly», a case of flattened or misshapen head and «brachycephaly», the flattening of the back of the skull.

The Mimos Pillow — Product Review Many parents who have noticed some flattening on their baby's head are looking for anything they can do to help correct the head shape.

«Remaining in the same position for too long can cause flattening of the head,» he says.

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In other words, the instability created by weak supportive ligaments keeps the body from being able to manufacture a deep, smooth hip socket for the ball to fit snuggly into, resulting in the flattening of the acetabulum (hip socket) and a squaring of the femoral head (the ball).

During play, punishment, greetings or physical contact some dogs might urinate and they also do tend to show submissive postures in interactions — for example, they flatten their ears against their head, they roll over and expose their belly or hold their tail low.

Watch for intense staring, lashing or twitching tails, ears turned back or flattening, unsheathing of the claws, engaging in the «butt - wiggle,» stiffening of the legs and shoulders, and lowering the head.

The lower - class workers bound and flattened the tops of their babies» heads for the first six months of life, so as adults, they could better carry baskets on their heads.

Speculation about the impact point of Fortnite's comet has been going on for a month now and while everyone thought it's going to flatten Tilted Towers, there are clues bubbling to the surface that it may be headed for Dusty Depot instead.

The flattened primitive - like figures and heads, orifices with sharp teeth, and genitalia that Siena's abstractions give way to demonstrate what the artist calls the «interplay between materiality and life,» allowing for the juxtaposition of «randomness against order.»

Drawing inspiration from graphic designer Rudolph deHarek's 1963 cover design for The Potential of Woman, which features a flattened, stylized view of a female figure's head.

Even as organizational structures flatten, every team needs a leader — unless you're headed for a support job where leadership is a liability.