How to correct the baby's head tilting to the left

Babies will have many problems during their growth and development period. The most common one is that parents will find that their baby's head is always tilted to the left. At this time, parents will become very worried. In fact, the best way is to perform a correction on their baby's head. This way, you can avoid the occurrence of head tilt. In daily life, you should let your baby maintain a suitable sleeping position.

Most parents tend to focus all their attention on eating, drinking, sleeping, weight gain, etc. when raising their babies, but ignore the normal development of the skull. They only start to worry once the baby's head becomes obviously tilted. Some parents believe that as long as the baby eats well and sleeps well, a slightly tilted head is not a big problem. A tilted head just looks unsightly, and girls can cover it with hair when they grow up. In fact, the skulls of newborns, especially premature babies, are quite soft and not highly calcified, so they can be easily deformed by external forces.

The baby's head may be tilted due to malposition of the fetus during pregnancy, multiple births, malnutrition during pregnancy, use of external force during delivery, improper sleeping position of the baby after birth, or the head being fixed for too long due to medical treatment.

3 ways to correct your baby's head shape:

1. Choose the appropriate sleeping position according to the baby's appearance

Some babies have high cheekbones. If they lie on their stomachs, their cheekbones will become even higher and their face shape will become uglier. It is more appropriate for such babies to sleep on their left or right side. If the baby's cheekbones are not too high, you can let the baby lie on his stomach more often, which will make the cheekbones higher and look better.

2. Adjust sleeping position according to baby's nature

Generally, babies are used to sleeping facing their mothers and also like to sleep facing the light. If parents are not careful, over time, the baby's head will become flat on the side facing the mother or the lamp. Based on this characteristic, parents should change the baby's sleeping position frequently, including when the baby wakes up. They should not have the baby sleep on the same side every day. They can also move the position of the lamp, and the mother can often exchange sleeping positions with the baby.

3. Use a plastic helmet

If the baby's head is very tilted, you can choose a plastic helmet. This type of helmet has a structure similar to that of a safety helmet and is made of extremely light material. It is made based on the ideal head shape of the baby, so that the concave and convex parts will no longer grow and the flat parts will have more room to grow. The helmet applies different pressures to different parts of the skull, causing the skull to grow at different rates. The baby's head shape will be naturally corrected by the shaping helmet, but the made-to-measure helmet must be guided by a doctor and customized to the head.

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