Can a babies head go flat from not turning them in their sleep?

yea there skulls are soft.
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Yes this does happen! One of my twins would sleep one way no matter how many times I turned him. The back of his head began to flatten and he did finally grow out of it by us working with him to sleep another way. When it is severe, there is this helmet that is made for them to reshape their heads.http://www.babycenter.com/0_plagiocephaly-flat-head-syndrome_1187981.bc?articleId=1187981&page=4#articlesection0
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As a baby is being born it's skull breaks into around 6 pieces. They heal quickly but when the baby is very new to this world it might get a little deformed. Good luck and congratulations!!!
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Not true. That part of the skull has not finished developing yet, so it looks a bit flatter than the rest of the skull. It will finish forming, though. She is just kidding around with you, or it's just a coincidence. Don't worry about it!
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well my sister's bf's brother has a condition where he cant walk ever and is 7 but acts and looks about 3 or 4. So anyways hes been laying his head on a flat surface for 7 years and has a flat spot on the back of his head.
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I have seen the back of babies heads getting a little flatter than when they were first born because of laying them down all the time…in fact I have a 4 mo old and the back of his head is slightly flat because I don't pick him up EVERYTIME he cries…so he sits in his bouncy seat and his hair is starting to bald a bit and his head is a littls flatter….not really a big deal
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Baby bones are very flexible–most baby's heads will become slightly flat on one side for a while from lying on it constantly, but I've never heard of a case where it became extreme enough to actually cause problems. =/
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Yes that is true! They even have special baby helmets that you put on the babie's head if the head has been flattened..
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No. Babies have soft spots on their heads called fontanelles. It takes a good year or two for these to start to harden with the rest of the skull. However, just because a baby sleeps with the head a certain way does not mean it's going to be flat. If anything the back of the head may be the last area to get hair due to the sleep position but it will not cause the head to be flat. Unless of course the baby is sleeping on concrete! The slow development and problems, more than likely, are from something completely different.
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yep, they nurses and midwives tell you to turn them because there heads will go flat. Its not that much trouble normally us mothers check our babies constantly anyway so when you do just turn there head the other way..:)
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NO THIS IS NOT TRUE. ASK HER DID THE BABY FALL OR DID SHE DROP THIS BABY. THIS WAS A HEALTHTY BABY .SOMETHING HAPPENED.TO THIS BABY MAYBE A BABYSIITER DID SOMETHING OR PARENTS BUT SOMETHING IS WRONG!!!!
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my friends baby did this but not only when he was sleeping and he his went flat on one side so she got told to start calling him or making noise from the other side of him and now his head is fine
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their skull can flatten out if they always lay on the same side of their head…. however I have never heard of slow development due to this… must just be a coincidence.
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