Cranial Osteopathy - colic

[Clarabell78]

Can anyone share any experiences of using cranial osteopathy for colic? My 8 week old is tortured with colic and nothing seems to be helping. He's just so so miserable and I feel like I'm slowly sliding into post natal depression. It's a pricey option but at this point I'm willing to the anything to help him.

As any foo no, anecdote does not equal data. HTH Crumbledwalnuts.

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Glad you understand then Crumbly.

at the risk of sounding like a broken record... Has he been checked for tongue tie?

DD had awful wind, constantly grunting and writhing and impossible to put down, and became overtired and screamy as a result. turned out she had tongue tie which meant she was swallowing vast amounts of air (and as with most small babies she found it hard to get air up or out). wish we'd found the TT earlier.

In answer to your question... prior to discovering the TT we did try cranial osteopathy, saw 2 different people both highly recommended. Possibly a small improvement but nothing dramatic, it was sorting out the TT plus passage of time that really helped.

Oh and loooong walks in the pram to help her sleep enough in the day so she wasn't too overtired - I really recommend this. I personally think a lot of colic is down to overtiredness.

We also tried infacol, colief, infant probiotics, gripe water, plain boiled water.... none of these helped.

s'ok - I sorted my colicky baby with a co - no marching around, upright position :)

I sorted my colicky baby with a co- or, as was almost certainly the case, it cured on it's own accord. But I'm glad you're glad you think you did something and handed over a wad of cash for the privilege. Me, I'd rather have the same outcome and hold onto my money .

Oh, yes, and not risk an unproven intervention on my baby (unproven as to whether CO is benign, or benefical, or dangerous).

I went to see a cranial osteopath with DS for colic and it was miraculous. A bad evening started at 7pm and finished at 5am with screaming non-stop apart from the odd 5 mins if we were lucky. The first two treatments improved things - the last one made it stop completely - no tailing off, just stopped.

She was a 'proper' osteopath with all the relevant qualifications and a specialisation in cranial osteopathy.

DD didn't have colic but she did have awful trapped wind which would manifest itself in her pulling her legs up and thumping them down, in her (and therefore my!) sleep, followed eventually by a huge fart. I gave her Infacol for what felt like weeks, which did work (the leg thumping would start up immediately if I stopped with the Infacol), but I was getting fed up of administering it, so I took her for one session of cranial osteopathy. And that was it, job done. So I would certainly try it, it may take a few sessions for something more serious.

as Petcat says, the sling was very effective, lots of upright positioning, over the shoulder and determined marching around.

Or maybe it just coincided with you baby being OK.

The sling was effective in stopping my baby crying - I'm not claiming it cures colic.

However, people who believe in the inherent rhythmic motility of the brain and spinal cord do claim to be able to cure colic.

Of course LeBFG - you know my baby better than me and you were there the whole time weren't you, hiding behind a curtain?

minipie we had him checked as his latch wasn't great when he was born. One midwife reckoned he had a 'slight' tongue tie, another said he didn't and the infant feeding specialist checked him and said she couldn't see one. His latch was so bad I stopped breastfeeding at 2 weeks due to the state of my nipples and expressed a further 2 weeks before switching to formula. He's now on comfort milk, infacol and colocynth granules. I feel the infacol def helps him get his wind up. His farts absolutely reek tho and I'm not entirely sure that this in itself points to something untoward going on with his stomach.

We do walk a lot in the pram and I've even taken to wandering shopping centers when it's wet out. Up until the last few days that was guaranteed to keep him quiet if not asleep but even that isn't working the way it used to. Had him out for a couple of hours yesterday and he screamed on and off the whole time with me having to stop and soothe him a good few times. I just feel like things are getting worse and worse.

DS was a nightmare when he was a few months old and would not sleep in his basket at night, only on me. A friend recommended a cranial osteopath and he diagnosed silent reflux. He was very honest and said he would only give him 3 sessions, saying it either worked or it didn't during that time. For us, it worked and I was able to put DS down into his basket at night and it helped then establishing a bedtime routine. Go to one who specialises treating babies. Mine wasn't a 'woo' quack, but a fully qualified CO.

I saw a CO who was honest. I took ds when he was 5 for some reason i forgot now.
CO said from the start that he didnt take any credit for anything that may happen after something that happened to him.

A boy who sufferred from various problems including gigantism and at the age of 5 had never spoken was booked in for a tuesday. The boy was ill on tuesday so they delayed the appointment to thursday. Mother and boy arrived thursday and the Mother was overjoyed that her son had finally said his first word on wednesday. CO said if the appointment had gone ahead on tuesday the parents would have said the CO was brilliant and he would have taken credit for the child finally talking when it would have all been a big coincidence.

In my (admittedly not massive) experience it goes like this: at 6 weeks you're thinking "hmmm will this baby never stop crying?" and by 8 weeks you're doing your nana, so you call up the CO to make an appointment. "Oh dear" they say "we can't possibly fit you in until the week after next, we're very sought after you know." So you book the screaming baby in for a course of 3 or 4 treatments over as many weeks, during which time you transfer all the cash in your bank account into their bank account. By the final treatment the screaming is subsiding, but the baby is now 14 weeks old so you're left thinking "did it actually work or did my baby just get older? Holy crap I feel poor."

Or in my (also not massive) experience: after every session the baby fills nappy and sleeps soundly, is regular and calm for a couple of days, then begins to work it's way up again until the next session, until after four the problem seems to not come back.

There is little/no research on CO but chiropractors made these sorts of claims about colic. However, the research showed the babies were no different from placebo i.e. when the babies were picked up and touched by someone.

i.e. the babies reacted by calming down/filling nappies just as a consquence of someone touching them.

It's not exactly the case that my baby wasn't touched all week and then the CO touched her.

What's with all this 'transferring all the cash in your bank a/c' business? I had 3 sessions @£25 each and the CO did not offer more than 3 sessions as he said if it had not worked after 3, it wasn't going to. I noticed a difference after the first session and to me £75 was well paying to be able to sleep in my bed instead of staying awake in an armchair!