We all know that babies need to be handled with care since their skulls are so soft. As many as 47 percent of infants today are being diagnosed with brachycephaly or flat head syndrome. It’s occurring more often as parents put their infants down to sleep on their backs (to lessen the likelihood of SIDS) and in multiple births.
They make corrective helmets for the condition that while custom made and skillfully crafted are, well, clinically ugly. Paula Shawn, a California artist has a remedy for the situation.
Warning: These photos are among the most adorable set of images ever collected.
Yeah the helmets are cute, but give me a freaking break. Helmets? Seriously? Like humanity couldn’t have survived and evolved through millions of years without the benefit of helmets? We are getting so damned overly safety conscious that we may as well wrap newborns in bubble wrap as soon as they come out of the canal, then transport them to a large plastic bubble, where they can live the rest of their lives in total safety. It’s almost to the point where we will have to be in child restraint seats until we are 21.
Nice gift of your talent and adorable. Too bad they are considered necessary today.
@JMV the helmets are designed to reshape the baby’s head so that it’s properly shaped, with no flat areas where they don’t belong.
JMV – Too bad they don’t make child restraint seats mandatory for Liberals until age 70!
What a blessing for the heart.
My Mom used to talk about how back in her day the ladies wanted Dr. Culverson to deliver their babies because he knew how to shape their heads real nice. I just thought that was crazy talk.
With this device, We could see the end of Libtardism in Our Lifetimes.
Where’s the ashtray?
So what’s the big deal? Isn’t there a whole indian tribe of flatheads?
Come on… the leading cause of flat-headed babies are babies left in the crib too long while mama goes to the club or is out looking for another babydaddy candidate. Meanwhile, the older kids (6 or 7) are left as fire watch. Look around, as in “people watching” and you’ll see.
So that explains todays’ college students. Flatheads one and all.
Dr Tar. Doesn’t matter what they are designed for, the human race evolved for eons without this kind of crap. I’m 55 and never wore one of them, and I don’t have flat spots on my head, nor do any people I know. This is just another bullshit ‘safety’ device that will make someone money as soon as they can get the government to make them mandatory ‘for the children’.
It’s lazy and poor parenting,
Now they need to be told to have “Tummy Time”, to combat SIDS Back to Sleep campaign, my goodness. The overuse of infantt seats (for babysitting purposes) lack of holding the child leads to this.
Will the muzzies use these on their foreheads?
Wish my nephew had a cool paint job when he needed to have his head reshaped.
JMV, I hope you’re healthy. But when the docs decide you need a pacemaker someday, I hope you stand by your principals and tell them what bullshit that is, humans have evolved for eons without that kind of crap, and that it’s just some way some guy can make money. I wonder if your parents felt the same way if you needed braces? Or corrective footwear. Or cleft palate surgery. Or… whatever. Fortunately, the government doesn’t “require” pacemakers any more than it requires these medical devices.
John, I grew up healthy. The males in my family however, tend to die of strokes or heart attacks prior to the age of 62. I have no problem with this, and I accept it. No, I will not accept a pacemaker. And you know damned well what I am talking about, you’re just too cowardly to admit it. These helmets were made to prevent flatheads (incase you failed to read the article correctly) and I object to the idea that some clown thinks that they will prevent anything. Also, note that the helmets are not adjustable for size, meaning that as the kid grows, mom and dad will have to spend more money on them when they have to buy the next size up.
And yes, they will eventually be mandatory. Just like car seats for kids were when they first came out, but a liberal government got the idea, most likely through liberal lobbyists that they should be mandatory, just like wearing seatbelt became a law because of the insurance agency lobbyists pushing for it.
Shit happens in life, that’s why it’s called life. If you want to go thru life wrapped in bubble wrap so that you can’t really experience life, then that’s your choice. Me, I’ll take life as it comes. There is a saying that goes along the lines of “The object of life is not to die with a body that is unused or showing signs of having lived, but to power slide in sideways with a blonde under your arm with a bottle of whiskey in your hand, yelling Whew! what a ride!