[Configuration of the skull of the newborn infant through the mechanical forces of labor and refiguration]

Abstract

The during labor removed head of the newborn (configuration) regular within the following 4 days will become again his normal figure. This procedure we call "refiguration". By means of X-ray and hydrocephalometric investigations during the refiguration we conclude on the morphologic alterations during preceded configuration. Though we got the opinion, that by the force of labor the procedure of the configuration leads to a diminution of the volume of the head and to displacements of the cerebral substance. We think, that this are parts of the normal compensatory mechanism of the fetus against pressure under birth.