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The fontanels on your baby's head are more durable than you may think.

The soft spot on your baby's skull is medically known as the "anterior and posterior fontanels" Their main purpose is to allow the skull plates to "give" and compress to squeeze through the birth canal. Without this allowance, the mother's hips would need to be considerably bigger/wider or the baby's brain would need to be smaller.

Another purpose is to allow room for it's rapid growth rate after birth.

The plates usually grow together and completely close by the age of two.

Although you need to be careful with these areas and make sure not to press down into them, theses spots, which are made up of tough, fibrous membranes, are really durable and help protect your baby from accidental bumps or falls.

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