United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

I was just looking over Mom2Michael's pictures of her son at birth, and one thing struck me:

Her son's head was perfectly shaped at birth, too!

I remember the nurses at Joshua's first "specialist" visit (at three days) thinking he was a C-section baby because his head was so round and non-deformed (ie. no classic "conehead"!). I have always wondered if this was because his shoulders were so big, it somehow reduced the amount of pressure on his head as it passed down the birth canal. Or something like that?

Wondering what other OBPI babies' heads looked like at birth...

Kate

Amber's head was round, but I only pushed a couple minutes (she was not my first baby). No time for any molding to happen in her situation.

Tanya in NY
Amber's Mom, ROBPI, 4 years old

Maia's head was conelike because they started me pushing at 7 cms (they manually tried to stretch my cervix open) and I pushed for 4 hours like that - at least 3 hours against a not fully dilated cervix. The top of her head matched my cervix.

Brandon (BPI) and Tera(NON BPI but shoulder dystocia and broken clavicle)both had the most perfectly round head !
GAYLE

Harper also had a perfectly round head. Interesting.

~Lisa

Logan (ROBPI) had a very cone-shaped head when he was born.

Crystal

Jody had a nice head too. However, Manny my older son had the cone head and also had SD.

Marlyn

My daughter Lucy's head was round as well. I thought that it was odd that she didn't have a cone-head, I pushed for 2 hours!

Alyssa was definetely cone shaped - she even had a bruise on the side of her face!

Jody

Jessica's head was perfect-third child and fast delivery.