As anyone who has gingerly handled a new baby will know, infants are born with soft skulls. their heads need to be a bit squishy in order to make it through the relatively narrow birth canal. But the ...

Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), scientists have captured 3D images that show how infants' brains and skulls change shape as they move through the birth canal just before delivery. Olivier Ami ...

The management of an impacted fetal head during a cesarean section represents a critical obstetric challenge, with significant implications for maternal and neonatal outcomes. The condition, often ...

CHILDBIRTH is the most natural thing in the world - and there's no doubt it's pretty extraordinary. While many are familiar with the changes the mother's body goes through to get ready for labour, you ...

Scientists have mapped how the shape of a baby's head changes during childbirth to learn more about the process known as fetal head molding. Compared with other mammals, the human pelvis is not shaped ...

If you've ever looked at pictures of yourself just after you were born and laughed at the shape of your head, there's now research confirming just how much the birth canal left a mark. The human ...

A study using CT scans of fetal skull and maternal pelvis covariation in pregnancies of 12 rhesus macaques finds that covariation occurs in such a way as to ease the passage of the fetal head through ...

Big babies, while being very cute, can cause several complications during pregnancy. Babies that weigh more than 8 pounds, 13 ounces when born are diagnosed with a condition called fetal macrosomia. A ...

During fetal echocardiography, a single 3-vessel view ultrasound image can detect ventricular outflow tract anomalies with a high degree of sensitivity, a new study shows. "The most commonly missed ...

Docs have long known that infants' heads change shape during birth but the exact details have remained unclear CHILDBIRTH is the most natural thing in the world - and there's no doubt it's pretty ...