to ask whether slightly uneven facial features may be a result of birth?

[TiesThatBindMe]

I'm just wondering really whether the way the skull compresses or something could leave you with uneven features? Similarly would ventouse or forceps have a long lasting effect on a baby's head?

I have difficulty with sunglasses cause one of my ears is lower than the other. You wouldn't notice it to look at me but I have to get metal sunglasses I can bend a bit so they look even! Lucky I dont need glasses or maybe I would have had to have a monocle!

My daughter has funny eyelid issues and she was a forceps delivery. She has Marcus Gunn JW Syndrome, though not sure if it’s caused by genetic or something else.

liminality my ears are wonky too. Always amuses the optician when they have to 'set' my new glasses

It's possible if the head was very compressed.

One of my DCs had an extremely squashed head at birth. More so than you'd normally get with ventouse / forceps. The head shape normalised a lot but is still slightly wonky. Not massively noticeable unless you look closely. Although DC isn't an adult yet so the head may be less wonky later.

My DD was born with the use of vontouse and on first appearances had superficial cuts and bruises to her head. However, after 8 weeks of problems breast feeding I discovered that she had also injured her neck and only had a very limited range of movement. ( hence the problems feeding) An osteopath diagnosed and fixed the problem and also identified that her head was an irregular shape since she had been lying on one side predominately. Once it was pointed out you could see it. She had treatment for about a year and I was told that the older you get the less likely it is to be corrected. I'm not sure it's completely symmetrical now but since her hairs grown no one other than perhaps a Dr or hairdresser is ever going to know. I doubt that what you see is ever seen by anyone else so I would try and relax about it.

One of my dc has a permanent (but thankfully not very large) deformity due to the the forceps used at birth. The other option was her death though, so we're ok with her wonkiness.

When you look at yourself in the mirror and then look at a photo you sort of see yourself as being twice as asymmetrical as you actually are because the side you normally see as smaller is on the other side.

I’m quite asymmetrical - DD saw me in the mirror recently and was really quite surprised. I don’t look particularly asymmetrical in baby photos, but my teeth were wonky as a result, right from when my adult teeth started coming through, so I probably was wonky from the start. My top jaw on one side is a fair bit smaller and the roof of my mouth is higher on one one side by about 8mm. My mum thinks it was because she was ill when pregnant with me at the time when the two sides of the face fuse together. She does have some weird ideas though. I guess if it was much worse I’d have a cleft palate, though I’m certainly no expert.

I was delivered by forceps and have a slightly wonky face. Also can’t move the right side of my face independently of the left so can’t wink, move my mouth to the side, raise my eyebrow etc. A chiropractor told me I have mild nerve damage from my birth, so I definitely think it’s possible for the effects of delivery to impact on a person long term.

Eldest DD has one ear with a lobe and the other without. I understand ears are formed by the position in the uterus?

My nose is on slightly wonky with one smaller nostril... exactly the same as my dad. Maybe a wonky nose is genetic in our family?

I have a dent beside one of my eyes due to forceps, also another in my hair line. I very nearly died at birth so I think they were just trying to get on with it!