CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY FOR MOTHER BABY & CHILDREN
Craniosacral therapy assists the pregnant woman along her journey into mothering and supporting inner resources for health.
During pregnancy, craniosacral therapy primary focus is to help release restrictions in the pelvis to relieve back and hip pain tension and to prepare for labour and birth.
The treatment involves a very light touch that supports the mothers inner resources and allows for the opportunity for an increase in the health expression of the body, facilitating release and regaining balance.
Whilst the baby is in the womb, Craniosacral Therapy encourages optimal labor, birth and the bonding process between baby and parents.
In the postpartum period, the treatment helps restore musculskeletal reintegration, emotional balance and pelvic health. We have found that treatment is even more effective for infants when the mother is simultaneously treated.
TREATMENT FOR BABIES AND INFANTS
Infants and children respond wonderfully to Craniosacral Therapy, being nearer to the source of life, they have fewer layers of conditioning and are not so organised around emotional and physical compensations.
Listening to the Craniosacral System with a felt sense often reveals birth and pre-birth details as expressed by the body.
Practitioners at the Body Intelligence Clinic have found treatment is even more effective for infants when the mother is simultaneously treated.
In a normal vaginal birth the infants' body undergoes spiraling compressive forces that ignite the first breath. When the infant is securely and lovingly received, makes skin to skin contact and is welcomed to the mothers breast, the unfolding of the compressive forces will begin immediately. If the mother follows her instincts to stoke the baby's head as it breastfeeds, even the bones that have overlapped will, within the next few days, begin to rebalance.
During a natural birth the baby's head is subjected to strong compressive forces, particularly with a long or difficult labour, forceps or ventouse intervention.
Births that involve these common issues may result in residual affects within the baby's system and may need support to fully resolve. Sometimes its possible of a normal birth to result in strains of the bones that form the skull.
Hyperextension of the babys head as it emerges from birth canal can cause compression of the cranial base and the opening through which the jugular vein and the vagus nerve exit the cranium, just behind the bottom of the ear. The vagus nerve is responsible for regulation of the digestive syste and restriction here can lead to difficulty in sucking, colic. and general irritability.
Craniosacral Therapy has become known for its gentle yet effective treatment of some of the most common conditions found in babies and children such as colic, feeding problems, restlessness, disturbed sleep and reoccurring infections.
Affects of birth trauma on the soft, still forming bones and tissues of the skull can be identified which, if left untreated, can lead to more persistent problems.
