Anyone found cranial osteopathy useful??

[titchy77]

I have a dd who is 7 weeks old and wondered if carnial osteopathy would be any help to us.
When she was in the womb she had IUGR, which is growth restriction and my placenta wasn't working so at 38 weeks i was induced which took 2 attempts of gel, ARM and the drip to start contractions, after a fairly quick and painful labour with her being back to back, she was whisked off to special care for 2 days where she had lots of blood taken and was tube fed. I find that she is a very windy, sicky baby who crys most of the time when she is awake and grunts quite alot when she is asleep and is hard to settle. Its like she's not happy being out of my womb!!
I've been reading about osteopathy and wondered if it would help her. Has anyone tried this with their baby and what the results were? Thanks.

I tried it with my agitated baby and although I didnt get the miracle result some people talk about I definitely think it helped calm him down and I would recommend giving it a go.

Ds had IUGR and was induced. 8 hour labour with hb dropping at the end, but no other intervention ultimately necessary. He had a really squawky patch around 4/5 weeks which I think was mainly trouble with trapped wind. I was a bit bluddi-minded and didn't want him to have any medicine at such an early age so took him to a CO.

I could feel these tense little stringy muscles in his neck first time around. Second time around, they had gone. He didn't need a third treatment. Only downside was that after the second treatment, he howled for 48 hours. The CO said that any immediate effect would only last for 48 hours and when it stopped after this period, that convinced me it was down to the CO.

The CO's theory was that the tension in his neck constricted one of the nerves which went down to the diaphragm. By helping the muscles relax, this removed the pressure. I think it did help, but I don't think you ever really know which alternate treatments like this...

Thanks i phoned a osteopath this morning and she said it should take around 3 treatments but it depends on the baby. Think I'll give it a go as she seems so distressed most of the time.

Don't know if I am a bit late but just to say that I had CO for both my children...& it worked brilliantly each time They both were emergency section & were just very unsettled winey babies. After 4 treatments each they slept better, were more content when awake & just seemed to be totally different babies.

I tried CO with my son when he was 2 1/2 out of desperation( I was crying when I made the appointment). There was definately a huge, possitive, change in his behaviour. I've since taken him when his hearing has been poor after a cold, and that helped too. I've also take ds2 and dd when they were small babies, even though I didn't think they needed to go. I was amazed at how much better ds2 slept after being treated. Plus they've all loved being treated.

I look my dd to an osteopath at 11 weeks on the recommendation of a breastfeeding counsellor. DD was ventouse delivery and difficult when feeding and hard to get to sleep (didn't like being horizontal, best sleeping held upright/in sling). She had 3 treatments and no miracle changes but she is definitely calmer, we have a greater proportion of "good" feeds (when she isn't screaming) and she is managing daytime naps in her cot at last . Changes gradual and subtle but definitely there, particularly after 2nd and 3rd treatments

Yes, very much. DD had a difficult birth (also induced - but she was wedged and so I ended up with a caesarian).

We had big feeding problems in the first three weeks; she lost quite a bit of weight and I was under pressure to give up bf. She found latching on difficult, and didn't suck that much But even the midwives at the hospital had suggested that this might be because she had a headache as a result of the birth. She also didn't like to sleep in her crib.

We had three sessions of cranial (as well as some advice from bf counsellor) and by the second she had changed hugely - sucking hard, gaining weight and would sleep in her crib. I think the advantage of doing it with such a young baby (dd was 4 weeks when we started) is that it doesn't take many sessions to sort out at all.