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Position your baby to prevent Flat Head Syndrome

The Symmetry Sleep Positioner helps avoid Positional Plagiochephaly, or “flat head syndrome” by ensuring proper sleep rotation, with an easy-to-use positioner for you, and a comforting place to sleep for baby.

Includes a caliper designed by Dr. Ricardo Hahn ("Dr. Plagio") to monitor the symmetry of your baby's head.

• Helps Prevent Positional Plagiocephaly
• Medically approved and patented design
• Comfortable design for baby
• Easy to use reminder system for "Repositioning" as recommended by Dr. Plagio and other leading paediatricians.
• Newborn to 3-6 months depending on the mobility of your baby.

Positional Plagiocephaly refers to a deformation of the head in infants that lay their head in the same position each time they sleep. if a baby prefers one side or position and gets into this position each night an uneven pressure can occur on still-developing skull bones, baby’s head can become permanently asymmetrical. This can occur in the first two to twenty weeks after birth, and can require expensive treatment.

Quick Questions:

1) "Why does the Symmetry Sleep System™ cost more than the other regular positioners?"
First of all, it's not just a positioner. The Symmetry Sleep System™ positions your child on their back in such a way that their head rests gently to the side. The simple sleep indicator then reminds you to alternate the position of your child each time you lay them down to maintain equal pressure on the developing skull. Also included is a specially designed caliper to monitor the symmetry of your child's head.

2) "My baby doesn't have plagiocephaly, do I need this?"

The Symmetry Sleep System™ is doctor recommended for ALL babies. The development of plagiocephaly can occur in days and can be unnoticeable until it's already a problem. Using the Symmetry Sleep System™ means you're able to ensure symmetrical sleeping and head development for your baby.

3) "How is this medically approved?"

The Symmetry Sleep System™ was developed by Dr. Ricardo Hahn (aka "Dr. Plagio") a leading advocate for plagiocephaly prevention in coordination with Basic Comfort, the leading manufacturer of Infant Sleep Positioners. It is indicated for healthy infants to aid in the prevention of skull deformities that may arise from constant back-sleeping postures, namely the condition known as deformational (or positional) plagiocephaly.

About Dr. Plagio

Dr. Plagio together with Basic Comfort have developed the Symmetry Sleep System™ – clinically designed to prevent Plagiocephaly by combining a repositioning reminder system with breakthrough medical technology that equalizes pressure on an infant’s skull.

The Symmetry System is based on the TOTS principles and is an alternate approach to preventing plagiocephaly. This system makes it easier for parents to apply the TOTS approach.

Basic Comfort, the leading expert in infant sleep aids, and Dr. Plagio have partnered to bring the number of cases of Plagiocephaly back to pre-1992 levels.

Since 1989, Basic Comfort has utilized the most recent research and innovative materials to provide parents with products they can trust. Combining expertise, the newly formed partnership hopes to spread awareness about Plagiocephaly among parents and make a significant difference in the well-being of their children.

What is Plagiocephaly?

Positional plagiocephaly is a deformation of an infant's head (one-sided flat head) caused by continuous pressure on one part of a baby's skull.

Positional plagiocephaly can develop at two different times in early life. The first time is at birth from malposition in the womb. The second occurrence may develop within the first 5 to 20 weeks of life and is as a result of infant's favouring one side head position. This second type of plagiocephaly is what is on the rise and what parents can easily prevent 99% of the time by employing Dr. Plagio's preventative techniques.

This condition seems to affect infant boys more than girls and has a higher incidence in low birth weight infants.

The newborn infant's skull is composed of seven individual bones separated by sutures. This arrangement accommodates transient skull distortion during birth and permits future growth of the brain, the volume of which quadruples during the first two years of life.

The sutures will be open in the first few weeks of life but will close as months pass by. If the sutures close before the head growth is complete, the face and head of the child will start to experience deformities. Similarly, if the head is subject to pressures that cause an abnormal position for the skull bones, the abnormality will be frozen into place after 8 to 9 months of life.

Plagiocephaly relates to the lanbdoidal suture which is located on the back of the head. An infant affected by plagiocephaly has a head showing a persistent flat spot on the back or on the side of the head with one the ears moving forward.

Positional Plagiocephaly refers to a deformation of the head in infants that tend to lay their head in the same position. The pressure applied on the skull at the point of contact places forces on the skull that shift the unfused skull bones. Positional Plagiocephaly may happen in the first 2-20 weeks after birth.