Believing that a round head is more beautiful, many Chinese parents are constantly searching on online forums for “miracle devices” that can “correct the shape of their child’s skull”.
Parents begin to find ways to shape their children’s round heads from birth because they think that newborn babies’ bones are softer and easier to shape.
Wearing a mold to shape the head from at just 7 months old
A young mother told the Xiaohongshu forum about her journey of taking her child for head surgery despite her family’s objections. The post quickly became popular on social networks.
She wrote that because her daughter likes to sleep on her back, her head looks “flat to the sides”. She tried her best to guide her baby to sleep on his side but it didn’t work.
When the baby was 7 months old, she decided to take her to a local clinic and have a “treatment device” custom-made for her. adjust the baby’s head.
The clinic’s staff wraps the baby’s head in many layers of plaster to measure and create a mold. The 7-month-old girl had to wear a plaster mold on her head for a long time to “shape” her round head as her mother’s strange hobby.
E-commerce sites such as Taobao also sells a series of “head reshaping” products such as helmet sleeping pillows and beds to “help” parents who want to reshape their children’s heads at home.
One stop shop The store advertises its products as being able to adjust “flat, slanted, and pointed heads” and says its head-shaping pillow can make a “big change in 45 days” if parents Start letting your baby sleep on a pillow when he is 3 months old. The store employee said, “The older the child gets, the harder it is to change their skull.”
The employee also shared with SCMP that the store received many positive reviews for the product. This employee also advised to “buy early” because the product is always in short supply and runs out very quickly.
Children have to go through pain because of their parents’ wishes
A new round head trend appeared in China. Decades ago, Chinese people preferred flat heads and wide foreheads because they believed that children with wide foreheads would have good luck in life. Many parents then force their children to sleep with their heads propped up on books or wooden boards to flatten the back of the head.
From the perspective of medical experts, children’s early development should be convenient. according to nature.
A pediatrician in Nanjing said orthopedic helmets are only used to treat patients with skull development problems. According to him, editing the shape of a child’s head for beauty is completely meaningless. This action only reflects parents’ unfounded worries about their children.
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