Hi everyone.

I'm a bit concerned as my son has a very flat head, at the back. I've been getting out more recently and meeting more babies his age and NONE of them have a head as flat as his. Some have flat spots but not like this.

He has never liked tummy time but I have done it as much as possible without him becoming hysterical. I have tried to sleep him on his side, lay him on his side on the floor but he keeps going back to his back.

I'm thinking perhaps his is worse because he has been FF pretty much from birth and I have favoured doing it on one side and not swapping. I don't know.

I met another baby the other day whose mum told me that she is NEVER on her tummy yet she had this perfectly round head.

My GP has seen it and told me to sleep him on his side (as I said, I've tried) and the MCHN just said it will fix itself.

I have a friend whose son had to wear a helmet to fix a flat spot on the side and now I'm really worried.

He has his 6 month needles on Friday so I will ask the GP again but does anyone have any experience with this? To be honest, it doesn't worry me if his head looks funny, iykwim but what if it's doing damage that I don't know about and also, it would be awful if it were that bad that he were picked on as he got older.

I'm worried that nothing can be done.

Kate