Usually not. Sooner is easier, but plenty of parents start later and still see change. If your baby's past six months, use it and mention the flattening to your pediatrician too.

Give it weeks, not days. Under three months it tends to show sooner. It's a slow, gentle shift not an overnight one.

Most are a single fixed shape that just lifts the head higher. This one dips to hold the head and adjusts on two axes as they grow, so it keeps doing its job past week six

Yes, used the way it's meant to be — awake and supervised. It guides, it never restrains, and your baby can always turn freely. Never leave them on it asleep or alone.

t's made not to. Natural filling and an open weave let heat out instead of holding it against the scalp — built with Indian rooms and no AC in mind.

Not at all — it's light and packs down, so it travels from cot to pram to your mother's floor without fuss.