Please tell me about your experiences with osteopathy!

[emkana]

I started another thread about osteopathy, but it sort of sank without trace (thanks NCQ though!) so I though I'd try again with a different title!

I'm wondering about taking ds to see an osteopath.

Have you been with your child, why did you go, did it help?

I adore my osteopath.
He is god like in his healing
I have seen two very potent examples of what osteopathy can do for children (on my own two) and would recommend it wholly.

I took my ds when he was about 8 weeks ish. He was having problems feeding and used to scream at feeds. It worked well. He still didn't love his feeds but could handle them better. She said his birth had probably been one of the reasons( I'd had forceps and ventouse)for his pain. She only takes donations as payment for treating babies.

I also took dd for the same problem but it didn't really help her. She had had no forceps/ventouse at birth at just probably couldn't cope with my fast let down, so was screaming for a diff reason.
I took her again for raynauds syndrome. I suffer from it and she had blue freezing feet all the time, not just the usual cold feet in babies. After 2 sessions at the cranial osteopath she's not been blue since!!! The osteopath said that it was the first time she'd treated raynauds so wasn't sure that she could help but she did!

emkana - couldn't recommend it strongly enough. DD was fractious when lying down and cried when woke up for the first three months before someone suggested cranial osteopathy. Her plates had been squished because of a vontuse delivery. She sobbed for first session, which osteopath said was her recalling birth but, after three sessions, was a different child. Osteopath says, if plates not properly aligned it feels like you're wearing a very tight hat or rubber bands round your head the whole time. She also said it can lead to problems in later life. I also use her for help with depression as it works a treat.

Used to go to one when my lower back/pelvis played up. Agree that it was expensive but worth it. Fantastic recovery! Haven't been now for over 6 years. (GP useless, glibly said 'take painkillers'?! )

Haven't taken either of the kids as yet, as have not had any probs, but would consider it if necessary.

Thanks everyone for posting.

Feel kind of excited about going now,

but really MUST NOT put my hopes up too high!!!!

Hello emkana, I'm a bit late to this thread but wanted to post this link to the Sutherland Society ; it gives you more information on cranial osteopathy and its use.
My ds had terrible birth-related problems and I cannot tell you how much it has helped us, and still does (he's now 3.)
I can't stress strongly enough, based on our experience, that it's a Cranial Osteopath you should see (there are also Paediatric Cranial Osteopaths who have trained for a further, I think, year or two specifically on children) and not an osteopath or chiropractor.

Best of luck and I really hope it works as well for you as it does for us xx

And finally...there is also the Osteopathic Centre for Children if you're near/can get to London. They run a system where you may see a different osteopath on each visit but you only pay what you can afford.

I took BabyDragon when she was 4 weeks old as she was always so snuffly and never sneezed anything out. I too came home with a different baby - a miserable, irritable one - but she did finally sneeze out some of what had been bothering her so it wasn't all in vain

I think that, if you can afford to do so, it's always worth trying these things.

Oh, and after sleeping through the first session, she screamed blue murder through the subsequent 2