Bringing a baby home from the hospital can be a scary time for a parent as they navigate the first few months as an expanded family. The head of the baby molds.
A conehead baby is a newborn with a head that s pointy or as the name suggests cone shaped after making his way through the vagina at birth.
Cone shaped baby head. Sometimes a baby s head is molded unevenly while passing through the birth canal. In other cases head shape changes after birth as a result of pressure on the back of the head when the baby lies on his or her back. This was the case with baby graham and reeder says mother nikki pushed for an hour.
The skull bones of the newborn are soft and naturally mobile and are meant to overlap each other. However a baby affected by carpenter syndrome maintains a cone shaped head. After a vaginal birth the baby s head usually looks like a cone shaped head or elongated during the descent and delivery of the baby and the head becomes a bit elongated and the cone shaped head.
The head will be shaped a little bit pointy. At birth your baby s head has an average circumference of 13 8 inches and makes up about a quarter of the length of her body imagine that ratio on a grown up. Should you be concerned.
If you ve had a vaginal delivery especially one in which you had to push for a long time. The reason is that as the mother s bones are expanding during the process of labor and birth the bones on the baby s head are not fused together and they mold. Babies mobile cranial bones form a cone shape as they pass through the birth canal and soon thereafter return to a normal shape.
Why does my baby have a conehead after my vaginal birth. The list of things to worry about as a child develops can seem endless and baby s head shape is a common item on that list. A baby affected by carpenter syndrome will also display malformations of the face.
Babies born head first can then have their head shaped into a cone as they move through the birth canal especially if it s a long birth with lots of pushing. It is completely normal and usually reshapes itself in the days or weeks following birth. Sometimes after baby is born they will have a little bit of a cone head.
You ll notice two soft areas at the top of your baby s head where the skull bones haven t yet grown together. Following a vaginal birth the baby s head is fairly elongated and cone shaped and parents are immediately worried that s the way the kid s head is going to be forever says steven p. David geller of the children s hospital and massachusetts general hospital told babycenter the newborn s head often looks cone shaped because it had to be compressed to fit.
