when a baby's soft spot closes too early

My sister was recently told by a doctor that her 4 week old sons soft spot was almost. Updated on October 29 2010.

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. Generally speaking the anterior soft spot the one on top of the head closes when the baby is between 9 months old and 18 months old while the posterior soft spot at the back of the head closes sooner between six weeks and eight weeks after birth. Your pediatrician will be monitoring your babys fontanelles in every checkup from birth until they are closed. The soft spot on the back of the head closes by age 3 months.

This one is not going to close until they are 18 months old to 2 years old. Jack had his 8 week check on Monday and the dr mentioned his soft spot is very small and she thinks it is closing too early i asked her if this would be a problem and she said quite possibly. Because there is no bone over the brain these soft spots can allow us to see brain problems.

Other reports have concluded the soft spot remaining open until the kid was a year and a half. Soft Spot Closing Too Early. If your babys soft spots close up too early certain conditions can result.

Asks from Bloomington IL on January 22 2009. A condition in which the sutures close too early called craniosynostosis has been associated with early fontanelle closure. However the bigger soft spot above the forehead will take a bit more time.

And a blow to the area can cause damage as the plates of the skull shift around the soft spots. Yesterday at my babys 4 month old well baby check up the doctor said she didnt have a soft spot it had grown together already. The smaller soft spots that are located at the back of a babys head will fully close by the time they are 3 months old.

When the bones of the skull are fused together either at birth or fuse too soon the condition is called craniosynostosis. Since the back soft spot is smaller it usually closes around three months old. Brain growth continues giving the head a misshapen appearance.

The timing just depends on the development of your child and his or her bone structure. These spaces are known as cranial sutures. A condition in which the sutures close too early called craniosynostosis has been associated with early fontanelle closure.

There have been reports that soft spots have closed as early as 6 months. Usually during infancy the sutures remain flexible allowing a. Craniosynostosis kray-nee-o-sin-os-TOE-sis is a disorder present at birth in which one or more of the fibrous joints between the bones of your babys skull cranial sutures close prematurely fuse before your babys brain is fully formed.

The sutures of the skull fuse around the brain at around age 2 years. Most are closed by 18 months. The larger soft spot in front can close as early as 4 months and as late as 24 months.

Soft Spot Closing Too Early. It happens when one or more of the natural spaces in the infants skull join together too early before birth or after delivery. When a baby has craniosynostosis one or more of these sutures hardens too early and closes before the baby reaches age 2.

The larger spot on the top-front of their skull wont close until around 18 months old. If you are concerned that your babys soft spot has not closed after about 1 year of age talk to your pediatrician. She said we have to get an xray today and go see a pediatric neuro-surgeon to discuss surgery.

The early closing is known as craniosynostosis and can stop the brain from growing mental retardation blindness seizures and an abnormally shaped head.

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