Cranial Osteopathy to help sleep?

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MissMia84 · 06/03/2015 09:08

Has anyone tried cranial osteopathy on their LOs to help with sleep? My son is fighting bed time (7.30pm) sometimes not sleeping until 10:30pm. He wakes around 1am and gets in our bed then is up for the day at 5am. He used to sleep for approx 12 hours, waking sometimes just once but usually twice. Does cranial osteopathy help them sleep?

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Genevieve1976 · 06/03/2015 20:31

Just about to post on here about this, my 8 week old has suffered sin e birth with blocked sinuses and although goes to.sleep.well.he is feeding every 2 hours and not increasing his food. I think this is due to sinuses, making it hard work feeding.

I'm going to an oestopath on Monday, expensive but going to give it a whirl. My sister used it on her son and said it helped but not sure if this was solely to help.with sleep.

Good luck if you do.decide on it

Eyespy24 · 06/03/2015 20:49

It worked an overnight miracle on both of mine as far as daytime naps go. Not much change on nighttime but that wasn't too bad.

omama · 06/03/2015 21:21

OP how old is your ds & does he still nap?

houseofstark · 06/03/2015 21:45

We used one with DS1 and it transformed his sleep. He was born using forceps and so his head was bruised and sore for quite a while. We didn't realise the long term impact this would have on him and so only visited the cranial osteopath when he was 6 months old.

The night after the first session, he slept solidly for much longer than he ever had before - approx 6 hours. Each night thereafter the sleep wasn't quite as good, until his next weekly session. Then we saw a massive improvement that night as well.

It took quite a few appointments (possibly because of the extent of the forceps damage.or because we took so long to book the first appointment) but it was the best thing we ever did.

I know some people doubt the benefit, but the improvements we saw were too marked to be coincidence. We've just had DS2 and will be booking him in shortly just in anticipation of any problems.

BooChunky · 06/03/2015 21:49

My DD2 was a terror, constant crying, spitting out milk and never sleeping.

I researched (on here and elsewhere) and was sure Cranial Osteopathy would be a miracle cure.

It wasn't. It did nothing. And it was pretty traumatic to watch her hysterically scream and be told not to touch her while she was handled.

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MissMia84 · 08/03/2015 18:29

omama Sorry my son is 21 months and naps 1.5 hours every day

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Chchchchanging · 08/03/2015 18:55

My ds had a complex delivery, silent reflux and literally never slept. Ever. He was never restful cried most if the time and generally very active
I was beyond help and whilst expensive thought it was worth giving it a go- £40 session
For 2 hours post each session I had a blissfull sleeping baby and the following 24 hours were generally more chilled too
So it didn't work a miracle but I knew 2 hours of respite followed each session and for us was worth it

Chchchchanging · 08/03/2015 18:57

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