No, although the heads of yellow people are generally flatter than those of white and black people, most people's flat heads are caused by incorrect sleeping posture in infancy, because the baby's head shape is really easy to change with external forces! Even a born baby with a flat head, sleeping on the side can change the head shape. Most babies are born with narrow heads and bulging heads like Caucasians, but many parents in China have no consciousness of protecting their heads. Some people who are even worse are still very backward in aesthetics, ignorant and strange, thinking that a flat head looks good, and they are alive to sleep for the baby.

From the perspective of natural beauty, flat head is not born but forced by external forces, so it loses the qualification to judge natural beauty. From the perspective of evolutionary beauty, the flat-headed long face belongs to the characteristics of apes, and the three-dimensional round face belongs to the characteristics of evolution. People can rule the world because of the development and evolution of the brain, and a remarkable external feature of evolution is the increasing thickness of cranial cavity and the shortening of facial bones, and the flat head obviously does not meet the standard of evolutionary beauty.

[repost] Overseas knowledge: Don't sleep with your baby's head flat!

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If the newborn mother has no relevant consciousness, the hospital has the responsibility and obligation to warn the newborn mother how to prevent the baby's head from being squashed by sleep. Children with round heads look smart and clean. The appearance of the Japanese is much better than half a century ago. In addition to the internal improvement, their appearance characteristics have also made great progress. Their heads have long been round, and their height has been greatly improved because they pay great attention to these details. Although it is only a matter of appearance, it is after all.

I saw an interview in Sydney recently. Jennifer, a 28-year-old young mother, complained to the newspaper that the hospital where her son was born was irresponsible and didn't do its duty to tell the newborn mother how to prevent the baby from lying flat. Jennifer was the first child at that time and had no experience. The baby's head was flat. She felt sad and regretted her negligence. When the child was 7 months old, he found that the back of his head was very flat. So I took the baby to see a doctor. The doctor equipped the baby with a special helmet and wore it every day. Now that the child is two years old, although the effect is good, it has not fully recovered to the natural circle. She said, "I wish we had been told about it from one day. If we had, we wouldn't try to correct it now ... "(If they could tell me on the first day of the baby's birth, why not today ...) ... My face was full of anger.

After going abroad, I found that foreigners' foreheads are round and beautiful, and there is no meaning of worshipping foreign things and flattering foreign countries here. It turns out that they are very concerned about the newborn's sleeping position and must not let it be flat. I quite agree with that. Personally, I think the flat head is unsightly and affects brain development. Boys with flat heads don't look handsome; What does it look like for a girl to tie a braid behind her head? It's like hanging a ponytail on a wooden wall!

In the prenatal education and postpartum precautions provided by many foreign hospitals, it is mentioned that attention should be paid to preventing sleeping flat. The reason is that once it is leveled, it will be difficult to recover, which will affect development and be unsightly. My two daughters were born like this. They stayed in the hospital for five days respectively, and the nurse reminded them every day that they were very responsible. Plus they pay attention to themselves, so there is no problem, round head, very cute. It turns out that they are foreigners taboo this. This phenomenon is called flat head syndrome or positional oblique head syndrome. The way to avoid it is to sleep regularly on both sides of the baby's head; Don't just sleep in a corner or lie flat face up all the time. If you ignore the baby's sleeping position, you may be able to recover when the child is still very young, but it will be difficult after the best period. In foreign countries, if the baby's head sleeps flat, what can be done to correct it?

Step 1: If the abnormality is caused by the process of pregnancy and delivery, see a doctor after the baby is six weeks old;

Step 2: If the head shape is irregular due to incorrect sleeping posture, see a pediatrician, but the sooner the better;

Step 3: Follow the doctor's advice. For example, let the baby sleep on his stomach (preferably in the case of someone during the day), and sleep with his head facing both sides when sleeping; Sleeping-proof flat head pillow is commonly used when leaning back; Reduce the sleeping position when sleeping, or when the baby is still young, you can sleep on your back, but sleep with your head facing the side, with an average number of times;

Step 4: The above methods are only applicable to babies under six months. If there is no progress, parents should take their baby to see a doctor for help.

Step 5: consider wearing a special helmet for babies over half a year old. But strictly abide by the requirements, the baby should always wear it, otherwise it will be invalid.

Step 6: Many insurance companies have this service.

So if young mothers don't want their baby's head to sleep flat, they must find ways to avoid it! Obstetric hospitals also have the responsibility to remind newborn mothers.

"Flat head syndrome" refers to the flat deformity in the back or side of the infant's skull to varying degrees, which leads to the functional damage of the infant. Among them, what happens on the back of the brain is called "tilt head disease"; What happens directly behind the brain is called "short head malformation".

"Flat head syndrome" will affect the baby's appearance and image; Lead to imbalance of optic nerve development in infants; It leads to uneven development of muscle tissue on both sides of the baby's head; Leading to relatively slow intellectual development of infants and young children; The skull deformation caused by "flat head syndrome" will destroy the normal brain cavity structure, affect the development of brain volume and dislocate the brain appendage. Severe deformity will make the baby's brain capacity insufficient and endanger the normal development of intelligence.

Generally speaking, flat head syndrome is most likely to form in the first three months after birth. During this period, most of the baby's time is spent in sleep. At this time, the baby's skull is particularly soft and develops very fast. Ordinary baby mattresses are flat and lack of scientific consideration of hardness, which can easily cause baby's head to be flat.

"Skeletal head deformity" will not correct and repair itself with age and physical development.

All the above are quoted from Journal of American Pediatric Medical Association-Pediatrics and Journal of American Association of Plastic Surgeons.