and atta to make sure kid is not too hairy faced.
^how's that one supposed to work, what do they do with atta , elaborate plz...
I don't believe in naak dabana (for thinner nose) , and surmaa dalna (for bigger eyes)
but about shaping the head, it is true that kids are born with really soft head, so if you don't take care in how you put them to sleep etc in the first few months after birth, the kid can have a really asymmetrical shaped head depending on their sleeping postion...
so there's no harm in putting a nice comfortable pillow or somehting around either side of the head to make sure the baby doesn't develop any asymmetrical flatness of the head depending on his/her most preferred sleeping postiion...
but ofcourse extreme type of practices to shape the head should be avoided, like for example someone said, sleeping the baby with head on a brick or rock ... geez.... or putting pressure on the head (dabbana) that could damage the brain...
but nothing wrong in preventing any anomolies in the shape of the head with proper sleeping positioning on a comfortable mattress with u shaped pillows etc around the head...
even doctors suggest this to prevent flat head syndrome...