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New fad in China has parents putting helmets and moulds on their babies to make their heads more round
- The parents want to take advantage of the babies’ soft bones and avoid having kids with flat heads
- Ironically, flat heads used to be considered lucky and parents would make their kids sleep on books
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Believing that a round head is more beautiful, Chinese parents are taking to social media, such as the trendsetting forum Xiaohongshu, to discuss “miracle” equipment that helps “correct a baby’s head shape”.
Babies have soft bones, and their heads will change shape during their young lives. The new trend has parents trying to take advantage and make their child’s head more round.
One mother wrote a popular Xiaohongshu post titled “I took my baby to head-shape correction, despite my family’s protests”. In the story, she detailed the procedures she put her baby through.
In September, she wrote that, because her baby loves to sleep on her back, her head looked “flat and stretched out”. The mother tried to make her baby sleep on her side, but it was ineffective.
When the baby was seven months old, the mother took her to a local clinic to get custom-made “head correction gear”.
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