Cranial Osteopathy for Babies

Katgoddess

Has anyone tried this for their colicky/windy baby?

I know about the charity in London who will perform this for a donation, but its a long journey for a young baby (and frazzled mum).

gypsyroseloz

My friend has had this done on both her girls & swore by it! Not sure where, Cornwall somewhere & Macclesfield area too. So there must be more places than just London!
HTH. x
Keep smiling!

Katgoddess

Oh I have the name of a local person as well but its not free. I don't want to fork out £35 a session if it doesn't work. The London one is free/donation. But involves and hour and a half on the train/tube.


http://www.fpo.org.uk/Secondary/AboutUs/clinics.html if anyone is interested in the free clinic.

PeskyPenguin

This thread from last week might be of interest:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1031219&highlight=Cranial+Osteopathy

lauranurse

You could try the healthy pages complementary therapy forums www.healthypages.net and see if anyone on there has tried it?

That clinic looks really good! It's a shame there arent more of them around the country!

Another option might be baby massage, which is usually taught in groups or one-to-one and is said to be very beneficial for all sorts of problems.

plzsm

hi
we were having sleepless nights with our 4-5 month year old at the time
born at a v long labour (3 days) by c-section
tried CO as a last resort
the result was amazing
iam a sceptic but after the first session he slept through for the first time
the rest of the week until the next session was a little mixed but after the second session he slept through for several nights running
no need for a third session
total cost was £70 which was the best money we spent

of course 6 months later life isnt perfect and we have had further sleep issues - but never as bad as before the CO visit

i couldnt recommend it higher (and that comes from a major sceptic)

Eager_Elephant

My daughter was an awful sleeper - she woke 10 - 15 times a night for no obvious reason.

I managed to cope but when she was about 7mths old I found out about cranial osteopathy and booked her in for some appts, 5 years ago I paid £35 for half an hour but it was quite an exclusive practice.

After the first session (mid afternoon) she slept for 6 hours solid but still woke in the night. After her 3rd session she was only waking 3 - 5 times a night and as this was a big improvement we stopped. Also as she was older she didn't like having a stranger massage her head so she wriggled around a lot.

On the first session the osteopath said her head was mis shapen which is normally caused by the birth either being to fast or too slow, in my case it was 3 hours. For some reason as the bones don't fuse together correctly it puts pressure in their heads which prevents them sleeping well.

I would say if you want to take your baby the earlier the better.

EE

NBirdy

Both my nephews had it done before they were 4 weeks old, my DD1 had 4 or 5 sessions from one of our midwives who was specially trained and did it for free DD1 was very colicky and a bit of a nightmare- prescribed Gaviscon for reflux etc etc - and it did seem to help settle her.

DD2 is now 10 weeks old, very fussy for several hours in the evening, and will be having her 4th session (£32 a go) with a local chap next week.
I *think* it helps, and I sure don't want to know how bad it could have been without the CO!

Katgoddess

Thank you everyone.

Crispy_Ambulance

Or you could just save your money and not bother.

I am not aware of any clinical evidence that cranial osteopathy actually does anything.

There are some links about it here.

It is a very good money spinner for cranial osteopaths however.

Mojisola

Crispy_Ambulance wrote: »

I am not aware of any clinical evidence that cranial osteopathy actually does anything.

The cranial osteopath who I see also does a great deal of work with children, many through personal reccommendation. She has parents bring children to see her from a very wide area. They wouldn't do that if the treatment wasn't successful.

She has helped me a great deal over the years with a variety of problems. How it works may not be understood or accepted by science but that doesn't stop it working. It would be irrational to suggest that every problem I have seen her about was just about to clear up by itself and it was all down to coincidence or the placebo effect!