Babies and Infants can 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 – what about the system that controls everything – baby’s nervous system?

Why is it necessary to have the 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 foetus. 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.

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Dr Robyn Leeder is a Melbourne Chiropractor, with a practice in Greensborough for the past 11 years. She has special interests in womens health, pregnancy and paediatrics supplemented by post graduate courses. She is also currently studying to be a diplomate of the prestigious American Chiropractic Neurology Board.