Crainial Osteopath

[CoreysMummy]

Please excuse my spelling if I have spelt that wrong, but you know what I mean.

Has anyone had any luck with this?? Anyone tried it and its made a difference, or none at all.

I have what I have been told is a Colicy baby... whatever this is!! I have tried, colief, use infacol, hot baths, slings, swings, comfort milk (as he projectile vomits up normal milk)...

The only thing left is this cranial thing that I have hurd about. Sooo....

I took him to see one, that a friends sister has used. She massaged him all over, felt his head, tried to pull plates apart or something and losen bones that havent fused in his head. She told me that colic comes from some nerves to the digestive system being crushed at the back of the head... they are crushed causing pain to the baby until about 12 weeks when the jaw drops.. releaving pressure, this being why colic dissapears at 12 weeksish, every babys different I guess.

Any one know any more, and is what I have garbled out up there correct??

1st session, no difference at all. Tho I figure its gotta take 3-4 before I see a difference, by then he will be 12weeks anyways... eakk...

God I hope this works, its like the only thing I havent tried, except droping him off at grandmas and jumping off a cliff....

 

[CoreysMummy]

lol, yeah I especially dont go in for these kind of things...

But im willing to try anything to stop the constant crying, from the moment he wakes til the moment he sleeps... I cant take him out, I cant do anything with him. Feels such a waste of 3 months.

 

[Sammystar]

I took Sam to one and it was amazing. I was sceptical too at first. But after the third session he was a changed baby.

He was back to back and had a difficult birth. He'd been stuck in the birth canal for 40 mins, and if you think of how his head was positioned during that time you can imagine he might have experienced some discomfort.

He screamed non stop and we were at our wits end.

The osteopath said he had lots of tension in his spine, neck and accross his forehead. She sorted him out no problem and we never looked back. I have no idea how she did it and I don't care. It was amazing to watch. She had such a calming effect on him.

She certainly had more of an effect than any shop bought colic rememdy.

My advice is don't knock it until you've tried it.

 

[CoreysMummy]

Excelent... Thats good to hear...

Im not knocking it yet, I have booked him another session next tuesday...

Mine was an emergency C section, he was breach, but no one noticed - unbelieveable really!!! He'd been breach for a long while, as you could see my rib dent in his poor lil head, where he'd grown under my ribs.

Soooooo, fingers crossed.

My main issue was, colic apparantly starts between 2-4 weeks, well from the moment he was born he screamed, so I do kinda believe that could be a headache/tension etc.

Presuming that colic is pain... would it be ok to give him calpol when hes 2 months old, if hes having a bad day to take away the pain... or does calpol not help things like that, I reall dont know.

 

[Sammystar]

It sounds like the osteopathy might help them. Sam was the same. Within a couple of hours of birth he started, and it didn't stop!

When the osteopath laid him down the first time she pointed out to me that he couldn't turn his head fully to the right. He had a stiff neck, bless him!

My first baby was colicky too, and she also had a difficult birth. I didn't take her to an osteopath and we had a really tough first four months. I'm just glad it was able to help Sam, and us.

I'm not sure about the calpol. I'd ask your HV or ask the Osteopath at the next session.

You should notice a difference after three to four sessoins, that's what I was told.

Good luck, I really hope it helps.......

 

[Bagpuss17]

I think it's defo worth visiting a cranial osteopath for colic.

We took our son to a cranial osteopath for his plagio but it defo had benefits in his overall well being. He noticed he was much more settled after his first visit.


Good luck and stick with it.