Recommend infant cranial therapist please - deeperate

[MacMomo]

Cambridge-Peterborough-Bedford area preferred. Thanks, we are desperate with night screaming and need to try all ideas.

[PosieIsSaggySacForLemaAndPigS]

Hmm....personally I think you may as well throw money down the drain/. What are your baby's symptoms?

[PosieIsSaggySacForLemaAndPigS]

BF/ff?
Fussy with a fedd?
Arched back after feeding?
Hates being put down?
Scream like in pain?
Holding doesn't stop it?
Feeding helps a bit, but then starts again?

[MacMomo]

Thanks but just after a recommendation, not a discussion please

[punkinpie]

Both mine had cranial osteopathy and it was enormously helpful.

Unfortunately we're in London; there must be plenty of people in Cambridge.

I hope someone else can make a recommendation. I suppose you've tried googling cranial osteopathy, Cambridge?

[BlingLoving]

If you can't find a cranial osteopath, chiropractor is good too?

Don't know the area I am afraid, so can't recommend anyone.

[MacMomo]

But for the record, none of those things. Baby is nearly 10 months and hasn't got reflux or allergies any more, and has been under the care of a paediatrician who specialises in allergies and reflux.

[punkinpie]

Here's one, for example, specialising in babies and children: Here. I only googled; no personal experience, but looks good.

Have a treatment yourself while you're at it - it's wonderfully relaxing.

[MacMomo]

Yes have googled but just thought I would see if there was someone known - nothing like a recommendation and I'm new to the area so don't know many mums yet. Thanks!

[punkinpie]

Yes, I would keep bumping it in case someone does know a practitioner local to you. The one we used was just so lovely, but in London, as I said.

Good luck...

[MacMomo]

Thanks! Might ask for that name in London just in case?

[CoteDAzur]

I wouldn't be worried about only wasted money. You will let someone push around the malleable skull of your baby?

I'd be more worried if she sleeps better and is generally more pacified after such "treatment".

[MacMomo]

Thanks but just after a recommendation not a discussion of the merits or not

[PosieIsSaggySacForLemaAndPigS]

no discussion about merits?

[MacMomo]

No thanks. My thread is quite specific. If you're not making a recommendation please be courteous enough not to pick a fight. We have had this treatment before elsewhere and I felt it was very helpful. I hold a PhD from cambridge, I can research science for myself. Again, thank you.

[BlingLoving]

It's worth getting the London name then call them and ask for a recommendation.

[nightcat]

this any good? Have seen J de V myself and with my ds, it worked when NHS told me I will not get better.

[CoteDAzur]

This is quite clear, too

Would I be correct in assuming that PhD from Cambridge is not on a science subject?

[punkinpie]

It's only people who've never tried cranial osteopathy who say it doesn't work.

I've never encountered anyone who has used it without reporting a definite benefit - like a much happier baby. That is my experience.

The MN archives are full of people saying how well it worked for their babies. I'm not sure why people would choose to argue against it on this thread and turn it into a fight, except to deter MNers from asking for such recommendations in the future, which they ought to be entitled to do.

My London recommendation is here.

People may by all means stick to the medical model for their own children, but it's not against the law in this country at the moment to use osteopathy, although clearly some MNers might wish to outlaw it.

[CoteDAzur]

Oh I'm not saying it can't work. I'm asking if you would really want your baby pacified by pushing around his malleable skull.

Have you watched Johnny Depp's "From Hell? Psychosurgery of those times was shown there to "cure" aggression resulting from anxiety & mental illness - tap three little holes in their skulls, and these people go from screaming to very docile

I realize cranial osteopathy is not as invasive, but it is still manipulation of the skull/brain with expectations of behavioral change, and I hope you will agree, that is extremely dangerous in a baby whose skull is still malleable.

[post]

All mine have been to co's , and I've NEVER seen one push or pull their skulls about! in fact if it wasn't for the fact that before I had kids I worked with 3 co's and SAW the amazing benefits to a lot of babies I'd have been really sceptical that they were doing anything at all, as it's so gentle, ime, that it looks like literally just cradling the head with a super light touch. ( and babies do get born , their heads do get squished then)

[post]

Stuart Korth at the children's osteopathic centre in London specialises in babies, and could probably give you a local recommendation. Lots of cranial therapists do some training with him.

[CoteDAzur]

So if cranial osteopath doesn't push, even gently, what is supposed to be happening?

Some sort of energy abracadabra between the man's hands and the baby's brain?

I wonder what they say in Cambridge about that.

[mistlethrush]

Cote, poster has been quite specific not wanting a discussion about it on here. However, I went with my ds early days for colic (it cured it) and one of the times he was treated he went to sleep during the treatment, then later on when he was a todler (because of general congestion) - when I managed to carry him in asleep for one of the treatments and he had all the treatment before he woke up.