There is a depression on the back of the baby's head. What's going on?

Babies are the flowers of the motherland and the future of the motherland. For a small family, they are the hope of the whole family. Sometimes parents may accidentally find a depression on the back of the baby's head and be very frightened when seeing this situation. In fact, you don't need to be overly nervous, because you don't understand the structure and softness of the baby's brain. If the back of the baby's head does not hit anything hard, there should be no problem.

From birth to around 20 years old, head circumference, intelligence and brain capacity all increase with age because the cranial sutures have not yet healed during this period. Around the age of 20, the cranial sutures begin to heal and the head circumference and brain capacity no longer increase. As the sutures of the skull heal, a small depression forms near the middle of the back of the head.

If you are fat, the wrinkles are formed by local accumulation of subcutaneous fat. It’s okay, it’s normal. However, the subcutaneous fat on your scalp is very thick, so you should consider losing weight. You are still young, and being overweight is a burden, and you are prone to high blood pressure, high blood lipids, and diabetes.

Because it is already there, it is natural and simple. You can touch someone else's head and you will understand it immediately. As for washing your hair half a month ago, it must be because you didn't check it carefully. You can't feel it if you don't touch it carefully.

Normal people have this, but I haven't studied its scientific name. . . Fat people will be more obvious

For babies born naturally, the skull is squeezed by the birth canal, the head is flat and long, and the left and right sides may be asymmetrical. However, it will not affect the health of the baby. Generally, it can recover naturally in 2 weeks, and it can also be corrected by adjusting the sleeping posture.

The best sleeping position is sleeping on the right side, which can prevent heart suppression. Sleeping on the side can also prevent the baby from suffocating due to spitting up milk. However, sleeping on one side all the time can easily cause head asymmetry and may also cause strabismus, so you can let the child change sleeping positions frequently.

At present, there is no consensus in the scientific community on whether skull deformity affects brain development. The mainstream view is that it does not affect it. However, some researchers have shown that at the age of six months, the brain development of children with skull deformities will be slower, but by the age of one and a half years, this difference has disappeared.

The closure status of the baby's fontanelle is an important indicator for measuring skull development. A normal child's posterior fontanelle usually closes within 3 months after birth, and the anterior fontanelle usually closes within 12-18 months. Once the fontanelle closes, the head shape is basically fixed.

Children whose fontanelle closes prematurely will have increased intracranial pressure, slow development, mental retardation, mental and motor abnormalities, epileptic seizures, etc. because the narrow cranial cavity cannot adapt to the normal development of the brain. These children may have abnormal head shapes: scaphoid head, tower-shaped head, acrocephaly, occipital or frontal plagiocephaly, etc. If parents find this phenomenon, they should go to the hospital for examination in time.

The neck muscles of 1-2 month old babies are not well developed and cannot support their heads. To prevent injury to the cervical spine, they should not be held upright. It is best to hold them in a semi-recumbent position with the head high and the feet low.

The weather is hot and the clothes are thin. If the parents are thin, it is best to put something on their arms to prevent the children from getting hurt.