Soon-to-be parents shouldn't expect their new baby to emerge from the womb with a perfectly smooth, round head. Infants come out with misshapen, elongated, and even swollen noggins all the time and it ...

An infant’s skull is not hard and fused like an adult’s. It is soft and made up of sections of bone which meet at “suture lines.” These soft pieces of the skull will harden and join together as the ...

Newborn cephalohematoma is a birth injury caused by trauma or pressure to the head during labor or childbirth. A pool of blood collects underneath the scalp and outside the skull. This happens because ...