For new parents, for optimal neuromotor development of your infant, in conjunction with our article on sensorimotor development:
What is positional plagiocephaly?
- It is a craniosynostosis anomaly of the skull in normal newborn infants.
- But symmetry "pressed" flattened the back of the head, due to the fact that the skull is flexible (soft, pliable) in the first months.
- It is due to immobility of the fetus in the prenatal period, to perinatal stress and due to pressures that the fetus receives in the uterus.
- In the first months of life, it is due to poor posture-position of the infant. The instruction to sleep babies in the supine position to prevent SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) combined with reduced tummy time (prone position) greatly increases the rates of positional plagiocephaly.
Prevention-treatment
- tummy time (prone position) with audio-visual stimuli both
- Symmetry in breastfeeding, feeding bottles, changing diapers, etc.
- Side changes in sleep (right-left, up-down)
- No stress as it is something non-organic
- After clinical consideration, our recommendation and ONLY then, evaluation by a specialized newborn-infant physiotherapist, echo of the anterior source of the skull and possible use of special pillows.
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