Does anyone else's baby have an incredibly sunken soft spot ?

[mummytobe_93]

My son is 7.5 weeks and has a ridiculously sunken soft spot. It was mentioned at his 6 week check up and said to keep eye on his nappies etc. I'm not worried about dehydration as we have plenty of wet nappies.

But I was just wondering if anyone else's baby has this? It is seriously a massive Indent on his head you can even notice it on photographs.

Thanks!

 

[minties]

Yes, my daughter had extremely lumpy bone plates in her head, which made her soft spot feel and look absolutely massive and weird.

You can still feel where it was, and her head still has big joins in the growth plates. She was hit by a car last November (she was fine), and the nurses at the hospital thought that her head was lumpy from injury and didn't believe me that it was just how her skull was.

 

[hanni]

Yes my sons is like this. I don't have anyone's to compare it to but you can always see it in photos.

 

[_Meep_]

Omg - my kid had THE BIGGEST soft spot I have ever seen! It was like the Grand Canyon. I'm posting a few pictures for you to look at!

She was born with a pretty large head, but her soft spot wasn't really noticeable until her skull plates started to spread out - and by God, did they spread out!

It was like a massive great diamond on the top of her head - you could see all the sutures and the shape of each piece of bone and everything. It didn't help that she had no hair to speak of. It was constantly sunken in when she was upright. I worried about it all the time, but nobody ever mentioned it to us, and she always fed plenty, and peed, and pooped.

Basically, no amount of fluid was EVER going to plump that f*cker out!

She still has a large head, and her soft spot is still open (she's 14.5 months), but it's soooo much smaller and her head is a normal, beautiful shape. I noticed one day suddenly at around 9-10 months that her soft spot wasn't nearly as big as it had been. She's so, so bright and clever and active too - I find it unlikely that she has suffered any adverse effects from having a sunken fontanelle for so long.

The first three pictures are of her from around 4-6 months and the last is of her a couple of months back (please excuse my stupid face in the picture - it was the only one I could find that showed how much it has closed lol). It's even smaller now - so much so that you wouldn't notice it on a photo, and it never looks sunken in.

She still has no hair though.

Watch his pee/poop output and don't worry too much about the soft spot - if it's big, it's surely going to look sunken!

 

[mummytobe_93]

Thanks for all your replies!! Yes his is exactly like that so at least he's not alone both of your babies are very cute x

 

[_Meep_]

Thanks! Don't worry, it'll get smaller!