Moldings

Molding in the fetus

molding refers to a physiological process of fetus skull bones for during delivery, which they temporary overlap each other at the point of fontanelles and sutures.

This is totally physiological process supported by;

• uterine contracting pressure in birth canal
• Sutures and fontanelles which are incompletely fused skull bones junction and enable those bones to overlap slightly
  
  

Source

Sadler, T. W. Langman’s Medical Embryology. Latest Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.