Althouse: Is your baby's head round enough?

April 18, 2005

Are you sure you've met your obligations in perfecting your child?

Anonymous said...: Does this open the door to babies with designer-shaped skulls? Because that would be awesome. Why have a boring round-headed baby when it could have Lisa Simpson spikes? Or a cone?; 4/18/05, 10:41 AM
NotClauswitz said...: The ancient Mayans used to do this, only they made the infant's forehead more flat by wrapping board against it. The whole thing reminds me of Chinese bound-feet, whether they know it or not.; 4/18/05, 11:19 AM
amy said...: Our pediatrician actually told us that those helmets are statistically useless. As in, the babies head is just as likely to even out on it's on, as with the helmet.; 4/18/05, 2:18 PM
Honus said...: ...and we're one step closer to making every kid wear a helmet his or her entire life.; 4/18/05, 2:47 PM
Al Maviva said...: It's only a matter of time before somebody opens a Baby ABATE chapter.

http://www.abatemn.org/; 4/18/05, 3:10 PM
tm said...: Yes, it may be expensive. It is low-risk. If one would put their adolescent child through braces, then this certainly makes sense and is certainly less painful. It is not necessary for life, it may not even be necessary in that it may correct itself, but if given the choice between cost and invconvenience and a Dan Akroyd Conehead look-alike (and some of these cases are severely deformed), I'll go for the prosthesis.; 4/19/05, 10:19 AM