Cephalohematoma (CH) is a collection of blood between a baby’s scalp and the skull. Damaged blood vessels release the blood, and the blood pools into a mass under the skin of the scalp. The blood ...

Caput succedaneum is a condition where your baby’s scalp swells shortly after they’re born. This is a type of edema, or fluid collection, just underneath the skin. Caput succedaneum can look alarming.

Newborn cephalohematoma is a birth injury caused by trauma or pressure to the head during labor or childbirth. A pool of blood collects underneath the scalp and outside the skull. This happens because ...

An infant’s skull is not hard and fused like an adult’s. It is soft and made up of sections of bone which meet at “suture lines.” These soft pieces of the skull will harden and join together as the ...