Does wearing a helmet change the shape of your head?

[summerdays]

There was a peice on the local news about how now that kids are laid on their backs to go to sleep that they are getting flat areas on the back of their heads. Some even wear special helmets to help reshape their heads (in case they get bullied in the future!). There is possibly something in that, my eldest we did it by the rules and put her on her back, the other two wouldn't sleep unless they were on their tummies and they have narrower heads.

 

[PrettyboyTim]

I guess the skulls of new-born children haven't fully formed (there's that weird soft spot right at the top of the head

Newborns' heads have evolved to be very soft so that they can deform to aid their passage out of the vagina. Babies often emerge with quite elongated heads, but they just go back to normal after a little bit.

 

[Night Train]

That's interesting. In the Asian culture, if a child is born with a slightly mis-shapen head, when they are laid down to sleep, the head is placed in a small blanket which has been coiled up to help re-shape the head...

It was an Asian baby, maybe that was why the in laws were so up tight about it.

 

[Keith Oates]

It can happen, many of the older policmen had slightly pointed heads from wearing the helmet so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[nilling]

What about the chavs!

There's a whole generation of yoofs with mishaped peanut heads due to constantly wearing tight fitting baseball caps 24/7

 

[jasper]

Did you take it out of the box before you put it on?