When your baby is born, their skull is very soft. The individual pieces of their skull aren’t fused together yet, allowing them to fit through the birth canal with ease. When your baby is born ...

Others were concerned about how the massager would impact the baby’s ‘soft spot’ on her head. All infants are born with two major soft spots on the top of their heads called fontanels.

These sutures meet together at two fontanelles, soft spots where your baby’s skull bones have not yet closed together. These sutures and fontanelles allow your baby’s head to squeeze through ...

These sutures, or soft spots, make it easier for the skull to squeeze through the birth canal and allow a baby's skull to grow with its brain. Sometimes, due to genetics, the environment ...

Tell your child’s doctor right away if you notice any irregularities to your baby’s head, including: flat spots a side of the head that looks slanted misaligned eyes and ears lack of a soft ...

Babies are born with six fontanels, which people commonly refer to as soft spots. The most noticeable are the anterior and posterior fontanels, which are, respectively, on top of the head toward ...

It happens. Babies take tumbles and hit their heads. Older siblings smack the newest family member right on their soft spot — accidentally or not. No matter how a baby bumps its head, parents ...