Should My Baby Receive Chiropractic Care?

Definitely! Just like the prenatal body that undergoes change and stress during pregnancy, your baby's development is only just beginning. After being restricted in the womb throughout pregnancy, we want to ensure proper spinal alignment after such a long and dramatic delivery process, especially in a birth environment where added force and assistance took place. Misalignments are compounded as their little bodies grow, while a spine that is properly adjusted gives them the best opportunity at healthy development both physically and neurologically.

Newborn and pediatric adjustments are much different than adult spinal manipulation. When we adjust babies, our Doctors of Chiropractic are looking for proper spinal movement, muscle tone, ligament flexibility, misalignments of the spine, and other infant reflexes. Only very gentle pressure is applied as needed. Treatment may also include use of an activator and cranial-sacral- techniques, both of which are as equally gentle.

Subluxations (misalignments in the spine) can cause undo stress in the body and nervous system. If our bodies cannot adapt to these stresses we can start to show this stress in different ways. The most common manifestations we see in our newborns include: Colic, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, breastfeeding issues, Irritable Infant Syndrome, sleep issues, and more. Chiropractic can help by addressing the root cause-the stress and dysfunction in the nervous system!

Its never too late or too early to get your kiddos under care.