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Somewhere around three months in, you notice it.

Maybe you’re changing a diaper, and your hand brushes the back of your baby’s head, and something feels off. A little flatter than it was last week. Or your mother-in-law mentions it on FaceTime in that voice mothers-in-law use. Or you’re at Target, and another mom glances at your stroller a beat too long.

And then you’re up at 2 a.m., phone glowing, typing...

The first thing Sarah Moore noticed was the pillow.

Not the head. The pillow.

Her son Conner was four months old, and the soft cotton crib pillow she’d been told never to use — the one she didn’t use — somehow seemed to have left an impression anyway. The back of his head, just behind the right ear, had gone flat. Not subtly flat. Flat like...