Chiropractic Care for Babies & Children

One of the earliest challenges a growing spine faces is the position it is forced to adopt in utero. Many women will have heard of foetal positions which can cause problems with the labour i.e. breech, brow, transverse, posterior, but what is less well known is that these can also cause problems in the baby's spine as well, termed “subluxations”. These subluxated regions of the developing spine can result in a longer and often more difficult journey through the birth canal, which can compound these problems.

In this way, even natural birthing methods can stress an infant's spine and nervous system - not to mention interventions such as forceps, vonteuse suction or caesarean section which can cause a lot more stress. The cause of many newborn health complaints such as reflux, colic, breastfeeding difficulties, allergic reactions, sleep disturbances and chronic infections can often be traced to irritation to the nervous system caused by these spinal subluxations and cranial misalignments.

Since considerable spinal trauma can occur at, or prior to birth, many parents prefer to have their newborn's spine checked straight away. Many developmental milestones including learning to hold up the head, sitting upright, crawling and walking are all activities that affect spinal alignment and are important times to have a child checked by a chiropractor, not to mention the falls, playground bumps and bruises, sports injuries and heavy school bags they inevitably encounter in later years.

The majority of information our brains absorb for our lifetime is completed in the first two years of life! That’s why it’s so important to make sure the brain and nervous system is working as well as possible in these early years of life to better ensure ideal health and function in later years.