A baby's head can change shape so it can fit through the pelvis during birth.
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.
To find out more about fetal head molding, the scientists recruited seven pregnant women aged between 23 to 34-years-old, who were expected to have healthy vaginal births. Three-dimensional fetal brain MRI reconstruction before labor and during the second stage of labor . PLOS ONE A reconstruction of how the bones in a baby's head changed during labor. Frontal bones are marked in pink, parietal bones in green, and the occipital bone in blue. PLOS ONE
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