Results vary but are generally visible within 4-6 weeks of overnight use.

Use the supplied measuring tape and instructions to find the correct layer.

Yes, it is firm, flat, and has no loose components, meeting safe sleep recommendations.

Yes, the contoured design ensures effectiveness regardless of head position.

Your baby should ideally spend all sleep time on the Perfect Noggin, but at minimum it should be used for overnight sleep. The more you can use it, the better the results.

Yes, there should be excess room above the head - do not move your infant to fill the gap.

Yes.

Once a baby can roll from back to belly, the Perfect Noggin can only be used under supervision (such as during day naps and the first part of the night before you go to bed). The goal is to reach this point with a head shape you are happy with.

Some infants may wiggle, scoot, or kick out of position on the mattress. This issue can usually be addressed by swaddling your baby if they are amenable and/or by adding a “speed bump”, which can be made by rolling a small face towel in the long direction (like a cigar) and placing it under the cloth cover just below the infant’s rear end.

The Perfect Noggin is made of closed-cell foam, similar to what is used for helmets. Your infant’s head may perspire in very hot and humid climates. Usually this can be addressed by maintaining a cooler ambient temperature or using an overhead fan. We do not recommend, for safety reasons, placing cloth or padding into or over the head recess.

It is a temporary issue that can also occur outside of the Perfect Noggin and is completely normal. The hair follicles remain healthy, and the hair will regrow. If it is a significant concern, you can place the Perfect Noggin inside a pillowcase to reduce any shear forces.

The Perfect Noggin measures 76.2cm (L) x 38.1cm (W) x 11.4cm (H).

The Perfect Noggin fits most bassinets. We have parents that have the Snoo and Halo Bassinet and they have reported that it fits in these popular bassinets.

Some infants may take a few days to get comfortable lying on the Perfect Noggin, and this is especially true for infants who start using the product at or after 3 months. Most parents tell us that after a brief adjustment period, their infants loved sleeping on the Perfect Noggin and slept better than ever!

If your baby is not yet rolling from back to stomach, it is not too late to start using the Perfect Noggin. We recommend purchasing it as soon as possible and using it as much as possible. If your baby starts to roll, you can continue to use it with adult supervision. Starting with the Perfect Noggin now can help minimize the amount of time your baby may need to wear a helmet if that becomes necessary later.

At 6 months old, even if your baby is not yet rolling, there may not be enough time to achieve the desired results. If you are concerned about your baby's head shape, a helmet would be a more effective alternative.

If your baby’s head shape really bothers you, the only treatment option available at this age is a helmet.

Your baby should stop using the Perfect Noggin when torticollis (if present) is fully resolved, they are older than 4 months, and you are satisfied with their head shape. Alternatively, you can continue using it until they start rolling from back to belly. At that point, you can decide whether to continue with supervised use, transition to a helmet, or stop using it altogether.

The NHS estimates that approximately 3% of babies are born with torticollis – this means it affects approximately 22,500 babies a year. True incidence is unknown, because torticollis is known to be under-diagnosed by primary care physicians. Torticollis is fibrosis in one of the muscles in the neck, the sternocleidomastoid muscle (usually shortened to SCM). This usually arises as a result of positioning in utero. The fibrosed muscle is contracted and painful, which means that using it to turn the head in a particular direction is painful for the baby and instead they adopt a classic “turn and tilt” position. The baby’s head is turned away from the fibrosed muscle, and the top of the head tilted over towards it. This means that left-sided torticollis presents as a baby who turns his or her head to the right, and tilts it left.

Torticollis is self-limiting in all but a very small percentage of cases, and there are no long term issues for the muscle. However, a baby with torticollis will persistently turn in one direction and when placed on a firm, flat surface on which to sleep, is likely to develop deformational asymmetry – a “flat head”.

A baby’s head grows very quickly to accommodate a fast-growing brain, and as it grows it conforms to any external constraints or pressures. A baby with torticollis will lie continually on the same side of his or her head, discouraging growth on that side. As a result, growth that should happen evenly on both sides is redirected to the side on which the baby does not lie, creating an asymmetry. In a baby who cannot move their head to either side comfortably, flattening will develop at the back of the head. This may be accompanied by overgrowth on both sides (creating a wide head with a flattened back) or overgrowth at the top of the head (termed turricephaly) which appears overly tall. There is no association between tongue or lip tie, and torticollis or head flattening. Tongue tie is a developmental anomaly arising from failure of programmed cell death; torticollis is a neck muscle imbalance that arises from constraint in utero. These two processes have no relationship.

There are only two options to offset this developing problem. The first – repositioning – is unpredictable and largely ineffective in babies with congenital muscular torticollis (which is almost every infant with flattening). It is impractical to expect exhausted parents to wake up every few hours to alter their infant’s head position. This is the reason parents turn to solutions which alter the surface on which the baby rests their head, since the head cannot become flat if it grows on a rounded surface. There are many pillows sold for this purpose, but they are largely ineffective and can actually cause flattening because they do not accommodate head growth and are not shaped like an infant’s head. They also pose a safety risk because they violate safe sleep recommendations against soft, loose items in the crib, and all pillow designs create dangerous neck flexion, which can restrict the baby’s airway. The Perfect Noggin was designed to overcome all of these limitations. Its patented, adjustable, soft foam liners are anatomically shaped to fit your infant’s head shape, and the platform design maintains the safest and most ergonomic head-neck-torso alignment. But the best feature of all is that it really works!

We dispatch every working day. For orders within Great Britain, these are sent with Next Working Day delivery. For Northern Ireland, it is 48 hour delivery. For the EU, we aim for no more than 4 working days where possible. Delays to EU deliveries are usually caused by Customs so we advise you to keep an eye out for an email from the shipping agent who will inform you of the procedure for paying this.

Once your shipment is booked, you will receive a tracking number.

If you are in Romania, please email for details of how to complete a faster purchase.

Yes, we can send PayPal invoices and accept direct bank transfers. Please email us with your specific request and we will do our best to work with you on a solution. 

We would love to chat about your baby’s head! Please drop us an email ( sales@contourimports.co.uk ) or head over to the Noggin Doctor’s Plagiocephaly & Torticollis Parent Discussion Board on Facebook.