Make infants to sleep supine

Nearly half of infants examined in one Canadian city showed signs of positional plagiocephaly (flattened head), more than would have been expected from most previous studies.

Of the 440 infants between 7 and 12 weeks of age (mean 9.7) examined at four clinics around the city of Calgary, Aberta, 204 exhibited some signs of plagiocephaly, with most showing mild symptoms, reported Aliyah Mawji, RN, PhD, of Mount Royal University in Calgary and colleagues. On that basis, the researchers calculated the rate of the condition among 7- to 12-week-old infants at 46.6%, according to their report in Pediatrics vastly higher than four earlier prevalence estimates that had found rates of 3.1% to 16.0%.  

The estimated high incidence of positional plagiocephaly may relate to recommendations that healthy infants be placed in the supine position for sleep to reduce the incidence of SIDS.