What to do if a newborn baby sleeps with his head tilted

Families are still very anxious about the phenomenon that many babies have bad sleeping postures. On the one hand, they are worried about whether the child's health will be affected. On the other hand, they are worried that the child's head shape will be affected if he sleeps badly, which will affect his image and appearance in the future. So what should we do if a newborn sleeps with a tilted head? If you want to solve this problem, you can't be impatient, and you must take correct measures step by step.

During outpatient consultations, babies sleeping with tilted heads is a problem that many new parents need to deal with. Apart from excluding pathological factors, a tilted head when sleeping is mostly caused by parents not wanting to interrupt their baby's "comfortable" sleep and not knowing how to help their child change the sleeping position of their head. Generally speaking, the main impact of this physiologically caused tilted head when sleeping is an unsightly appearance. If the baby's head is tilted when sleeping, the head shape will be asymmetrical, and over time it may even affect the baby's face shape, making one side of the face bigger than the other.

In addition to appearance issues, long-term side sleeping is not conducive to the baby's growth. For example, if the baby sleeps on the left side more often, it will affect the emptying of the stomach and the circulation of blood in the heart. Therefore, helping children form the correct sleeping position is also a science. The correct way is to change the child's sleeping position every once in a while to avoid maintaining the same position for too long, which can effectively sculpt the child's head shape.

Parents do not need to worry too much for the time being, but it is still recommended to take their children to a regular hospital for routine health check-ups. For babies under one year old, due to the characteristics of head bone development, the shape of their head is easily affected by external conditions during the development process. Moreover, sleep accounts for more than half or even two-thirds of his time every day. Therefore, if the child's head is always tilted to one side, the occipital bone on the compressed side will become flat, resulting in an asymmetrical head shape. However, the baby's head shape is very plastic before the age of 1, especially before 6 months, it is easier to correct. The key is to constantly change sleeping positions.

When the baby's head is crooked when sleeping, it is recommended that parents should take into account the baby's physiological characteristics of growth, and target the baby's dependence on the mother and strong interest in light, sound, shadow, color, etc., and guide and correct the baby by changing the habitual body position, the mother's position, the position of the bed, and the room layout.

As for what to do if a newborn baby sleeps with his head tilted, the answer above is very clear. Family members must always observe the child's behavior and health status, and slowly help the child correct bad habits. Changing sleeping positions or directions through various methods will have good effects, and family members can try it.