Craniosacral therapy can be particularly beneficial in treating newborns and infants. Tensions and restrictions in the baby's head, spine and body can result from various pressures experienced during late pregnancy and the forces of labor. These pressures can be increased by difficult labors, forceps or vacuum assisted births or emergency caesarean births). These restrictions can cause discomfort in infants, disturbed sleep patterns, difficulty nursing, colic and digestive issues. 

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Signs your baby could benefit from Craniosacral therapy:

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• Your baby tends to lie “banana shaped”, always curved to one side

• Your baby have an uneven head shape

• Your baby tends to favor looking /turning their head to one side

• If breastfeeding, your baby latches more easily on one side

• Your baby has sluggish bowel function

• Your baby seems more unsettled than you would expect

• Your baby is having difficulty sleeping even after being fully fed, dry, burped

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At what age can a baby have Craniosacral therapy?

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The youngest babies we treat are 3 or 4 days old, after their first out-patient pediatrician appointment.

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Symptoms/Conditions that can be helped with CST:

 

• Birth traumas and other perinatal challenges

• Infant latching/sucking difficulties

• Ear infections

• Torticollis and plagiocephaly

• Reflux and colic

• Facial asymmetries and eye motor problems;

• Learning disabilities, A.D.D., A.D.H.D;

• Gross and fine motor problems;

• Developmental delays, autism;

• Headaches;

• Concussion, and post concussion symptoms;

• Tinnitus, hearing loss and vertigo;

• TMJ syndrome;

• Stress disorders and insomnia;

• Muscle and joint pain or injury; and

• Many neurological conditions and pain syndromes.​