Why Infants need and benefit from Chiropractic Care

Babies and Infants benefit from a Chiropractic check-up of their spine and nervous system. Mums are amazing women doing everything within their power to ensure their baby’s health and wellbeing during pregnancy. Then there is the magnificent birth and arrival of their precious little one and mums natural instinct is to be protective. You have your baby’s eyes, ears, heart checked – remember to check the system that controls everything – baby’s nervous system?

Why is it necessary to have your precious little baby checked by a Chiropractor?

The answer is quite simple really. Baby has gone through quite a lot in the birthing process. It is not unusual for baby to have subluxations and some misalignment of the spine. Towbin A, reported in the article on latent spinal cord and brainstem injury in newborn infants – Develop. Med. Child Neurol., 1969. "The birth process ... is potentially a traumatic, crippling event.... mechanical stress imposed by obstetrical manipulation --- even the application of standard orthodox procedures may prove intolerable to the fetus. The view has been expressed clinically that most signs of neonatal injury observed in the delivery room are neurological...". Chiropractors are trained to correct subluxations and spinal misalignments. It is therefore important to have baby’s spine and nervous system checked by a chiropractor sooner rather than later. Mums are amazed by how much better baby tends to sleep, feed and behave after their Chiropractic check-up.

Why do babies feel so much better after a chiropractic check-up? 

The chiropractor identifies and treats any subluxations and misalignments in baby’s spine, this generally allows baby to move more freely, also it removes any interference to transmission of messages through the spinal cord and nerves to the baby’s body, organs, tissues etc. The interference free communication through the nervous system enables the baby to naturally grow and develop optimally.

At Greensborough Family Chiropractic we see many mums and their precious babies. We have mums from many surrounding areas such as Greensborough, Watsonia, Macleod, Rosanna, Diamond Creek,  Ivanhoe, Mill Park, South Morang, Collingwood and Templestowe visit our warm, friendly practice. Please call 03 9432 4644 for an appointment.

When does your baby need a spinal check-up?

• Soon after the birth process  (we see babies  days or weeks after birth)
• More urgent if difficult birth (forceps, suction) or caesarean birth
• Baby is a poor sleeper or baby dislikes being held
• Inability for baby to breastfeed
• If baby favours one side for feeding
• When baby starts to hold their head up
• Baby constantly arches backward or constantly kicks out their legs
• Colic (20% of babies have infantile colic – Chiropractic helps)
• When baby sits up
• When baby starts to crawl
• When baby starts to stand
• When baby starts to walk
• If baby has any problem with their movement patterns – reflex locomotion

To check out our information on reflex locomotion in babies CLICK HERE !