CRANIOSACRAL THERAPY FOR BABIES, INFANTS AND CHILDREN.

CST treatment sets the stage for the body to most efficiently use its own power to heal. Babies and children will often sleep for a longer stretch than usual after a session and find the treatment deeply relaxing. During a session, the therapist adapts her technique to the attention span and needs of the patient.

Being Born. During the birth process, the baby’s head molds to fit through the mother’s pelvis. It is normal for the cranial bones to compress. After birth, these compressions and other accommodations in the baby’s skull should not persist. If they do not correct themselves, they can interfere with proper cranial nerve function leading to colic, breathing, swallowing, digestive or sensory-motor impairments and more.

Sometimes babies are injured in the birth process. The injuries may be both physical and emotional. CST can address these injuries as well as the effects of precipitous or prolonged labor, ventouse, forceps or ceasarean birth.

Ceasarean births can be harder on babies than we imagine. Ceasarean-born babies can have more respiratory distress, more abnormal neurological exams, and more chronic middle ear infections and other problems throughout childhood. The birth process is abrupt and potentially more frightening than vaginal birth. Surgically born infants have fewer quiet alert periods right after birth and have less opportunity to share bonding time with their mothers who may be unconscious or recovering in another room. CST can effectively address all of these things.