Does your child have a flat head?

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A recent report stated that 50% of children who started school in the UK last year have some degree of flat head (positional plagiocephaly). Can this really be true?

yes quite possible

lots of time in those baby car seats that clip onto buggy frames is involved, I am sure

can we have a link to the recent report please?

Yep, had one from 6 weeks old. Nothing to do with the carseat (had barely been in it).

After lots of repositioning and use of pillows it did go just about back to normal. I can just about see the flat bit now (he's 4) but only when his hair is v short.

Only know one other person who's child had plagio though.

I'd like to know who these people are that are going round measuring the heads of all these schoolchildren though

My DD did when she was a baby, it had almost completely corrected itself by the time she was 1, she still didn't have much hair at this point and since her hair has thickened up you cant notice it at all.

My DS had a flat head.

I put it down to the fact that he was a great sleeper but always tended to sleep with his head in exactly the same position. He's 13mo now and it has pretty much resolved, and he has more hair to hide it!

Depends how the study graded it?!

My DD2 always slept in the same postion and her head nearly had a corner on it! I tried changing her sleep position, but even if her body was facing the other way, she would twist her head round to where she wanted it. I had a lovely comfy carry-cot pram and a cradle rather than a moses basket, so she was always on soft surfaces. Anyway, she is 2.9 now and it is almost back to normal, all but a very slight flatness that you can only see if you look down on her head when her hair is tied up.