Chiropractic for Infants and Babies

You do so many things to ensure your baby's health: During pregnancy you eat right; you avoid cigarettes, alcohol and all drugs; and you explore  natural, drug0free birth alternatives. After the baby arrives you breastfeed if possible knowing that it is the superior form of nutrition for your baby's physical, intellectual and emotional health. In short, you do everything you can to make sure your baby is healthy. 

But have you had your baby's spine checked? How do  you know if you child's spine is healthy? An unhealthy spine can affect your child's health for his/her entire life. Dr. Lalonde is specially trained to check your child's spine for areas of distortion causing nerve damage-the subluxation complex (subluxations).

Birth Trauma- The First Subluxation

Sometimes a newborn's spine is harmed at birth. How can that occur? 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...most signs of neonatal injury observed in the delivery room are neurological.

The Spine and Infant Health

With the birth process becoming more and more an intervening procedure, the chiropractic adjustment becomes even more important to your child's future spine health. 

For over a hundred years doctors of chiropractic have observed the often dramatic responses of infants to chiropractic care.

There seems to be no limit to the conditions that can respond to chiropractic care: colic, difficulty breast-feeding , Erb's palsy (an arm in lip and undeveloped), torticollis (twisted neck), unbalanced face and skull l development, foot inversion, nervousness, ear, nose and throat infections, allergies and sleep disorders, and projectile vomiting are just a sampling. 

All infants however, sick or well, need to have a healthy structural system. 

SHAKEN BABY SYNDROM

Babies are very top heavy. Mild to moderate shaking of a child can result in serious neurological damage since their neck muscles are undeveloped. This damage has been known to occur after playfully throwing the child up in the air and catching him/her. The damage caused is called Shaken Baby Syndrome. IN addition to being shaken or thrown being spanked can also cause structural or neurological damage to a child. Any child who has been subjected to this rough behavior desperately needs a chiropractic checkup to prevent possible nerve damage. 

When does a baby need a Chiropractic check up?

According to the chiropractic pediatric specialist Larry Webster, DC, there are six times in a baby's first year of life when chiropractic examinations are especially important: 

• After the birth process
• When the baby starts to hold his/her head up/
• When the baby sits up.
• When the baby starts to crawl
• When the bay starts to stand.
• When the baby starts to walk.

Our children deserve to be treated naturally, not with dangerous chemical drugs and unproved surgeries.  Give your baby the best possible chance to have a healthy life. You have your baby's eyes checked, heart checked, hearing checked- please bring your child(ren) in for a chiropractic exam. A simple checkup now might make a BIG difference for your child(ren) for the rest of their lives.