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.
It's also super important to help
prevent head flattening!
As I discuss at great length in my book, The Flat Head Syndrome Fix, we want to encourage our babies to turn in both directions equally throughout the day in order to
prevent head flattening.
Not exact matches
A special weight distribution design — that keeps baby comfortable and
prevents flattening of the
head.
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.
Understand and begin implementing simple strategies to
prevent and reverse
head flattening during sleep, play and daily care like diaper changes and feeding.
Learn more about why flat
heads matter and what you can do to
prevent or correct
head flattening.
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).
Your baby can be placed on his / her stomach while awake during the daytime (not in the crib) to help develop muscles and eyes and to help
prevent flattened areas on the back of the
head.
There was no evidence that special devices to
prevent or treat DP had an effect on
head flattening, which calls into question the use of the devices, the researchers said.